{"product_id":"louisiana-isbn-9781118619292","title":"Louisiana","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eSince the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, \u003ci\u003eLouisiana: A History\u003c\/i\u003e has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCompiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a whole\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eMap 1 Louisiana viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMap 2 The United States, with Louisiana highlighted ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by \u003ci\u003eJohn C. Rodrigue\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Light Townsend Cummins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Native Peoples and European Contact 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Founding of French Louisiana 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Louisiana as a French Colony 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Spanish Louisiana 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Final Years of Colonial Louisiana 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Judith Kelleher Schafer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Territorial Period 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Political Development of Antebellum Louisiana 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Life and Labor in Antebellum Louisiana 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Edward F. Haas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Uneasy Interlude, 1877–1892 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Bourbonism, Populism, and a Little Progressivism, 1892–1924 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Time of the Kingfish, 1924–1935 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877–1935 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four 325\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Michael L. Kurtz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Corruption, Reform, and Reaction, 1936–1950 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Reform and Race, 1950–1960 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Decline of Racism, 1960–1972 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Era of Edwin Edwards, 1972–1987 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Louisiana at the End of the Century, 1987–2000 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Louisiana in the New Millennium 454\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix I 481\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Rulers with Relation to Louisiana during the Colonial and Territorial Periods 481\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMilitary Commandants and Governors of Louisiana 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix II 486\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Selective Chronology of Louisiana History 486\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 493\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBennett H. Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn C. Rodrigue\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLight Townsend Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJudith Kelleher Schafer\u003c\/b\u003e teaches American legal history at Tulane University and has published two prizewinning books: \u003ci\u003eSlavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and \u003ci\u003eBrothels, Depravity and Abandoned Women\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), as well as \u003ci\u003eBecoming Free, Remaining Free\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward F. Haas\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael L. Kurtz\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of American History at Southeastern Louisiana University. His publications include \u003ci\u003eEarl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003eCrime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eLouisiana Since the Longs\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and \u003ci\u003eThe JFK Assassination Debates\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCovering the lively period from before First Contact to the present, \u003ci\u003eLouisiana: A History\u003c\/i\u003e provides an overview of the colorful history of this unique state. 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