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Louisiana : a history / edited by Bennett H. Wall and John C. Rodrigue ; by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummins, Light Townsend, author.
- Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942- author.
- Haas, Edward F., author.
- Kurtz, Michael L., 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Louisiana--History.
- Louisiana.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 540 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- Contents:
- Part One / by Light Townsend Cummins. Native peoples and European contact
- The founding of French Louisiana
- Louisiana as a French colony
- Spanish Louisiana
- The final years of colonial Louisiana
- Part Two / by Judith Kelleher Schafer. The territorial period
- The political development of antebellum Louisiana
- Life and labor in antebellum Louisiana
- Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana
- Part Three / by Edward F. Haas. Uneasy interlude, 1877-1892
- Bourbonism, populism, and a little progressivism, 1892-1924
- The time of the Kingfish, 1924-1935
- The struggle to catch up, 1877-1935
- Part Four / by Michael L. Kurtz. Corruption, reform, and reaction, 1936-1950
- Reform and race, 1950-1960
- The decline of racism, 1960-1972
- The era of Edwin Edwards, 1972-1987
- Louisiana at the end of the century, 1987-2000
- Louisiana in the new millennium.
- Notes:
- Earlier edition entered under title.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cummins, Light Townsend, author. Louisiana
- ISBN:
- 9781118619292
- 1118619293
- OCLC:
- 855507149
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