Louisiana

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Wiley-Blackwell 2013년 11월 19일 출간

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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 marketCompiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveriesIncludes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spillConsiders the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a wholeWritten in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps

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Map 1 Louisiana&&&& viiiMap 2 The United States, with Louisiana highlighted&&&& ixIntroduction by John C. Rodrigue&&&& 1PART ONE&&& 7 by Light Townsend Cummins1 Native Peoples and European Contact&&&& 92 The Founding of French Louisiana&&&& 323 Louisiana as a French Colony&&&& 524 Spanish Louisiana&&&& 685 The Final Years of Colonial Louisiana&&&& 85Suggested Readings&&&& 101PART TWO&&&& 105by Judith Kelleher Schafer6 The Territorial Period&&&& 1077 The Political Development of Antebellum Louisiana&&&& 1278 Life and Labor in Antebellum Louisiana&&&& 1569 Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana&&&& 197Suggested Readings&&&& 227PART THREE&&&& 233by Edward F. Haas10 Uneasy Interlude, 1877&n-1892&&&& 23511 Bourbonism, Populism, and a Little Progressivism, 1892&n-1924&&&& 25612 The Time of the Kingfish, 1924&n-1935&&&& 28013 The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877&n-1935&&&& 301Suggested Readings&&&& 322PART FOUR 325by Michael L. Kurtz14 Corruption, Reform, and Reaction, 1936&n-1950&&&& 32715 Reform and Race, 1950&n-1960&&&& 35116 The Decline of Racism, 1960&n-1972&&&& 37617 The Era of Edwin Edwards, 1972&n-1987&&&& 39318 Louisiana at the End of the Century, 1987&n

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Editors:Bennett H. Wall (deceased) was Professor of History at theUniversity 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.John C. Rodrigue 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.Authors: Light Townsend Cummins is the Bryan Professor of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, anda leading expert on the history of the Spanish Borderlands. In 2009 he was appointed as the official State Historian of Texas.Judith Kelleher Schafer teaches American legal history at Tulane 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 State University in Dayton Ohio. He was named a Fellow of the Louisiana Historical Association, whichin 1999awarded himthe 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.Michael L. Kurtz isProfessor Emeritusof American History at Southeastern Louisiana University. His publications include Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics (1990), Crime of th