Louisiana Legacies Readings in the History of the Pelican State.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Allured, Janet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Editors' Preface
  • Part One: Louisiana's Colonial Context
  • The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • 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
  • Homer Adolphe Plessy
  • John Howard 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

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