| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118541883 |
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111854188X |
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