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Louisiana


Louisiana

A History
6. Aufl.

von: Bennett H. Wall, John C. Rodrigue, Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz

31,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 19.11.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118619537
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 560

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Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, <i>Louisiana: A History</i> has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market</li> <li>Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveries</li> <li>Includes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill</li> <li>Considers the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a whole</li> <li>Written in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps</li> </ul>
<p>Map 1 Louisiana viii</p> <p>Map 2 The United States, with Louisiana highlighted ix<br />Introduction by <i>John C. Rodrigue</i> 1</p> <p><b>Part One 7<br /></b><i>by Light Townsend Cummins</i></p> <p>1 Native Peoples and European Contact 9</p> <p>2 The Founding of French Louisiana 32</p> <p>3 Louisiana as a French Colony 52</p> <p>4 Spanish Louisiana 68</p> <p>5 The Final Years of Colonial Louisiana 85</p> <p>Suggested Readings 101</p> <p><b>Part Two 105<br /></b><i>by Judith Kelleher Schafer</i></p> <p>6 The Territorial Period 107</p> <p>7 The Political Development of Antebellum Louisiana 127</p> <p>8 Life and Labor in Antebellum Louisiana 156</p> <p>9 Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana 197</p> <p>Suggested Readings 227</p> <p><b>Part Three 233<br /></b><i>by Edward F. Haas</i></p> <p>10 Uneasy Interlude, 1877–1892 235</p> <p>11 Bourbonism, Populism, and a Little Progressivism, 1892–1924 256</p> <p>12 The Time of the Kingfish, 1924–1935 280</p> <p>13 The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877–1935 301</p> <p>Suggested Readings 322</p> <p><b>Part Four 325<br /></b><i>by Michael L. Kurtz</i></p> <p>14 Corruption, Reform, and Reaction, 1936–1950 327</p> <p>15 Reform and Race, 1950–1960 351</p> <p>16 The Decline of Racism, 1960–1972 376</p> <p>17 The Era of Edwin Edwards, 1972–1987 393</p> <p>18 Louisiana at the End of the Century, 1987–2000 418</p> <p>19 Louisiana in the New Millennium 454</p> <p>Suggested Readings 478</p> <p><b>Appendix I 481</b></p> <p>European Rulers with Relation to Louisiana during the Colonial and Territorial Periods 481</p> <p>Military Commandants and Governors of Louisiana 482</p> <p><b>Appendix II 486</b></p> <p>A Selective Chronology of Louisiana History 486</p> <p>Index 493</p>
<p><b>Editors:</b><br /> <br /> <b>Bennett H. Wall</b> (deceased) was Professor of History at the University of Georgia, and instrumental in the founding and operation of the Louisiana Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. He was a renowned scholar in southern and U.S. business history.</p> <p><b>John C. Rodrigue</b> is Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor of History at Stonehill College, in Easton, Massachusetts. He previously taught Louisiana History and other courses at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is the author of several books and scholarly articles on nineteenth-century U.S. and Southern history.</p> <p><b>Authors:</b><br /> <br /> <b>Light Townsend Cummins</b> is the Bryan Professor of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and a leading expert on the history of the Spanish Borderlands. In 2009 he was appointed as the official State Historian of Texas.<br /> <br /> <b>Judith Kelleher Schafer</b> teaches American legal history at Tulane University and has published two prizewinning books: <i>Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana</i> (1997) and <i>Brothels, Depravity and Abandoned Women</i> (2011), as well as <i>Becoming Free, Remaining Free</i> (2003).</p> <p><b>Edward F. Haas</b> is professor of history at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio. He was named a Fellow of the Louisiana Historical Association, which in 1999 awarded him the Garnie McGinty Lifetime Meritorious Service Award. He has published numerous works on Louisiana and New Orleans history and has twice won the L. Kemper Williams Prize for excellence in Louisiana scholarship.<br /> <br /> <b>Michael L. Kurtz</b> is Professor Emeritus of American History at Southeastern Louisiana University. His publications include <i>Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics</i> (1990), <i>Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective</i> (1993), <i>Louisiana Since the Longs</i> (1998), and <i>The JFK Assassination Debates</i> (2006).</p>
<p>Covering the lively period from before First Contact to the present, <i>Louisiana: A History</i> provides an overview of the colorful history of this unique state. Now in its sixth edition, the classic text has been updated and revised to include the very latest scholarship in the field, as well as coverage of recent events, including the 2010 BP oil spill and its ensuing economic and environmental effects.</p> <p>Incorporating the latest historical literature, the text focuses not only on political but also social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and artistic history within the Pelican State. Organized in four parts, <i>Louisiana: A History</i> explores how events outside the colony, territory, and ultimately state of Louisiana shaped not only Louisiana’s destiny, but that of the American South and the United States itself.</p>

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