Louisiana Legacies : Readings in the History of the Pelican State.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allured, Janet.

Contributor:

Martin, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louisiana--History.

Louisiana - History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.

Summary:

Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship. Includes readings featuring recent scholarship that expand on traditional historical accounts Includes material on every region of Louisiana Covers a wide range of fields, including social, environmental, and economic history Detailed, focused material on different areas in Louisiana history, including women's history as well as the state's diverse ethnic populations.

Contents:

Intro

Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State

CONTENTS

Editors' Preface

PART ONE: LOUISIANA'S COLONIAL CONTEXT

The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783

The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1763

Oliver Pollock's Plantations: An Early Anglo Landowner on the Lower Mississippi, 1769-1824

PART TWO: WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS IN EARLY LOUISIANA

Desiring Total Tranquility-and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleans

A Female Planter from West Feliciana Parish: The Letters of Rachel O'Connor

The Murder of a "Lewd and Abandoned Woman": State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker

PART THREE: TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOUISIANA "CREOLE"

Early New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal

In My Father's House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845-1875

PART FOUR: VIOLENT LOUISIANA

"I Would Rather Be Among the Comanches": The Military Occupation of Southwest Louisiana, 1865

From the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parish

Feuding Is Our Means of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern Louisiana's Piney Woods, 1877-1910

An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924

PART FIVE: PROGRESSIVES AND RACE

When Plessy Met Ferguson

The Rest of the Story: Kate Gordon and the Opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment in the South

In Pursuit of Louisiana Progressives

PART SIX: MODERN LOUISIANA POLITICS

"What he did and what he promised to do . . .": Huey Long and the Horizons of Louisiana Politics

Huey Long: A Political Contradiction

"When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty": Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928-2000.

The Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina

PART SEVEN: TRANSITIONS IN RACE RELATIONS

Racial Repression in World War Two: The New Iberia Incident

Transitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930-1950

PART EIGHT: CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN MODERN LOUISIANA

Making the "Birthplace of Jazz": Tourism and Musical Heritage Marketing in New Orleans

Commercialization of Cajun Cuisine

Who Destroyed the Marsh?: Oil Field Canals, Coastal Ecology, and the Debate over Louisiana's Shrinking Wetlands.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Allured, Janet Louisiana Legacies

ISBN:

9781118541883

OCLC:

827207871