Louisiana — Details & Specifications

Title Statements

Full title :Louisiana : a history / by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014
Edition:6. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons
Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

Notes

Earlier edition entered under title

Includes index

The Physical Object

Description:540 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781118619292, 1118619293, 9781118619537, 1118619536
oclc:ocn931343251
LC Classification:F369
Dewey Decimal:976.3

Part One / by Light Townsend Cummins. Native peoples and European contactThe founding of French Louisiana -- Louisiana as a French colony -- Spanish Louisiana -- The final years of colonial Louisiana -- Part Two / by Judith Kelleher Schafer. The territorial period -- The political development of antebellum Louisiana -- Life and labor in antebellum Louisiana -- Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana -- Part Three / by Edward F. Haas. Uneasy interlude, 1877-1892 -- Bourbonism, populism, and a little progressivism, 1892-1924 -- The time of the Kingfish, 1924-1935 -- The struggle to catch up, 1877-1935 -- Part Four / by Michael L. Kurtz. Corruption, reform, and reaction, 1936-1950 -- Reform and race, 1950-1960 -- The decline of racism, 1960-1972 -- The era of Edwin Edwards, 1972-1987 -- Louisiana at the end of the century, 1987-2000 -- Louisiana in the new millennium.