{"product_id":"louisiana-legacies-isbn-9781118541890","title":"Louisiana Legacies","description":"\u003cp\u003eShowcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes readings featuring  recent scholarship that expand on traditional historical accounts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes material on every region of Louisiana\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers  a wide range of fields, including social, environmental, and economic history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDetailed, focused material on different areas in Louisiana history, including women’s history as well as the state’s diverse ethnic populations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors' Preface 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: LOUISIANA'S COLONIAL CONTEXT 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783\u003cbr\u003eby Daniel J. Usner 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699–1763\u003cbr\u003eby Carl A. Brasseaux 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Pollock's Plantations: An Early Anglo Landowner on the Lower Mississippi, 1769–1824\u003cbr\u003eby Light T. Cummins 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS IN EARLY LOUISIANA 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesiring Total Tranquility—and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eby Kimberly Hanger 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Female Planter from West Feliciana Parish: The Letters of Rachel O'Connor\u003cbr\u003eby Sara Brooks Sundberg 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Murder of a \"Lewd and Abandoned Woman\": State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker\u003cbr\u003eby Judith Kelleher Schafer 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE: TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOUISIANA \"CREOLE\" 93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal\u003cbr\u003eby Joseph G. Tregle, Jr. 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn My Father's House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845–1875\u003cbr\u003eby Justin Nystrom 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR: VIOLENT LOUISIANA 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I Would Rather Be Among the Comanches\": The Military Occupation of Southwest Louisiana, 1865\u003cbr\u003eby Michael G. Wade 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parish\u003cbr\u003eby Joel M. Sipress 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeuding Is Our Means of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern Louisiana's Piney Woods, 1877–1910\u003cbr\u003eby Samuel Hyde, Jr. 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891–1924\u003cbr\u003eby Alan G. Gauthreaux 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE: PROGRESSIVES AND RACE 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Plessy Met Ferguson\u003cbr\u003eby Keith Weldon Medley 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rest of the Story: Kate Gordon and the Opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment in the South\u003cbr\u003eby Elna C. Green 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Pursuit of Louisiana Progressives\u003cbr\u003eby Samuel C. Shepherd 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX: MODERN LOUISIANA POLITICS 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What he did and what he promised to do . . .\": Huey Long and the Horizons of Louisiana Politics\u003cbr\u003eby Jerry P. Sanson 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuey Long: A Political Contradiction\u003cbr\u003eby Glen Jeansonne 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty\": Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928–2000\u003cbr\u003eby Anthony J. Badger 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina\u003cbr\u003eby Kent B. Germany 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SEVEN: TRANSITIONS IN RACE RELATIONS 257\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacial Repression in World War Two: The New Iberia Incident\u003cbr\u003eby Adam Fairclough 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930–1950\u003cbr\u003eby Lesley-Anne Reed 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART EIGHT: CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN MODERN LOUISIANA 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the \"Birthplace of Jazz\": Tourism and Musical Heritage Marketing in New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eby J. Mark Souther 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommercialization of Cajun Cuisine\u003cbr\u003eby Marcelle Bienvenu, Carl A. Brasseaux, and Ryan A. Brasseaux 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Destroyed the Marsh?: Oil Field Canals, Coastal Ecology, and the Debate over Louisiana’s Shrinking Wetlands\u003cbr\u003eby Tyler Priest and Jason P. Theriot 331\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael S. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and director of its Center for Louisiana Studies. He also manages the university’s publishing concern and its Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism. Dr. Martin is also the managing editor of the Louisiana Historical Association’s quarterly journal, \u003ci\u003eLouisiana History\u003c\/i\u003e. His publications include \u003ci\u003eChemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas:  A Centennial History, 1902-2002 (2002)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHistoric Lafayette\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Allured\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at McNeese State University and coordinator of its Women’s Studies program. The co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLouisiana Women: Their Lives and Times\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), she also shared the authorship of \u003ci\u003eImages of America: Lake Charles\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). She is currently working on a history of the modern feminist movement in Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCombining the best previously-published articles and essays on a variety of historical topics, \u003ci\u003eLouisiana Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compendium of well-written and accessible perspectives on the state's history. The volume covers material ranging from colonial era interactions between Native Americans and the first European settlers to the environmental history of the state’s southern wetlands, whose ecology is internationally recognized for its stunning natural diversity as much as its extreme vulnerability to the pressures of climate change and human encroachment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe collection reflects the richness of today’s historical purview, with tightly focused chapters on a multitude of fascinating subjects. They include analyses of Louisiana’s tumultuous political history in the modern era, its troubled road towards racial equality, and the fiery debate over racial attitudes. The unique cultural qualities of Louisiana, including its Cajun cuisine and the inimitable jazz tradition of New Orleans, are also areas of focus.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eLouisiana Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e Janet Allured and Michael S. Martin have put instructors of Louisiana history firmly in their debt. Even general readers will draw profit and pleasure from these well-chosen selections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection combines well-known articles with cutting-edge scholarship on emerging topics of import. Taken together the essays provide a rich supplement for teaching Louisiana History in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Alecia P. Long, Louisiana State University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989542420709,"sku":"NP9781118541890","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118541890.jpg?v=1761784531","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/louisiana-legacies-isbn-9781118541890","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}