Wall / Cummins / Rodrigue Louisiana

A History
6. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61964-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, E-Book

Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from beforeFirst Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition ofthe classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging andcomprehensive narrative of what is arguably America's mostcolorful state.
* Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic textin 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-lovedand most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on themarket
* Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field ofLouisiana history who combine their own research with recenthistorical discoveries
* Includes complete coverage of the most recent events inpolitical and environmental history, including the continuedaftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill
* Considers the interrelationship between Louisiana history andthat of the American South and the nation as a whole
* Written in an engaging and accessible style complemented bymore than a hundred photographs and maps

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cummins, Light Townsend

Schafer, Judith Kelleher

Haas, Edward F.

Kurtz, Michael L.

Wall, Bennett H.

Rodrigue, John C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Map 1 Louisiana viii
Map 2 The United States, with Louisiana highlighted ix
Introduction
by John C. Rodrigue 1
PART ONE 7
by Light Townsend Cummins
1 Native Peoples and European Contact 9
2 The Founding of French Louisiana 32
3 Louisiana as a French Colony 52
4 Spanish Louisiana 68
5 The Final Years of Colonial Louisiana 85
Suggested Readings 101
PART TWO 105
by Judith Kelleher Schafer
6 The Territorial Period 107
7 The Political Development of Antebellum Louisiana 127
8 Life and Labor in Antebellum Louisiana 156
9 Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana 197
Suggested Readings 227
PART THREE 233
by Edward F. Haas
10 Uneasy Interlude, 1877 - 1892 235
11 Bourbonism, Populism, and a Little Progressivism, 1892 - 1924 256
12 The Time of the Kingfish, 1924 - 1935 280
13 The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877 - 1935 301
Suggested Readings 322
PART FOUR 325
by Michael L. Kurtz
14 Corruption, Reform, and Reaction, 1936 - 1950 327
15 Reform and Race, 1950 - 1960 351
16 The Decline of Racism, 1960 - 1972 376
17 The Era of Edwin Edwards, 1972 - 1987 393
18 Louisiana at the End of the Century, 1987 - 2000 418
19 Louisiana in the New Millennium 454
Suggested Readings 478
Appendix I 481
European Rulers with Relation to Louisiana during the Colonial and Territorial Periods 481
Military Commandants and Governors of Louisiana 482
Appendix II 486
A Selective Chronology of Louisiana History 486
Index 493

Über Autor(innen)

Editors:
Bennett H. Wall (deceased) was Professor of History atthe University of Georgia, and instrumental in the foundingand operation of the Louisiana Historical Association and theSouthern Historical Association. He was a renowned scholar insouthern and U.S. business history.
John C. Rodrigue is Lawrence and Theresa SalamenoProfessor of History at Stonehill College, in Easton,Massachusetts. He previously taught Louisiana History and othercourses at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is theauthor of several books and scholarly articles onnineteenth-century U.S. and Southern history.
Authors:
Light Townsend Cummins is the Bryan Professor of History atAustin College in Sherman, Texas, and a leading expert on thehistory of the Spanish Borderlands. In 2009 he was appointed as theofficial State Historian of Texas.
Judith Kelleher Schafer teaches American legal history atTulane University and has published two prizewinning books:Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana(1997) and Brothels, Depravity and Abandoned Women (2011),as well as Becoming Free, Remaining Free (2003).
Edward F. Haas is professor of history at Wright StateUniversity in Dayton Ohio. He was named a Fellow of the LouisianaHistorical Association, which in 1999 awardedhim the Garnie McGinty Lifetime Meritorious Service Award. Hehas published numerous works on Louisiana and New Orleans historyand has twice won the L. Kemper Williams Prize for excellence inLouisiana scholarship.
Michael L. Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of AmericanHistory at Southeastern Louisiana University. His publicationsinclude Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and LouisianaPolitics (1990), Crime of the Century: The KennedyAssassination from a Historian's Perspective (1993),Louisiana Since the Longs (1998), and The JFKAssassination Debates (2006).