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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453677903321

Titolo

Louisiana : a history / / edited by Bennett H. Wall and John C. Rodrigue ; by Light Townsend Cummins [and three others] ; cover design by Simon Levy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-61964-1

1-118-61953-6

Edizione

[Sixth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (552 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WallBennett H

RodrigueJohn C

CumminsLight Townsend

LevySimon

Disciplina

976.3

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Louisiana History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own