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Louisiana Legacies
Readings in the History of the Pelican State
With Louisiana Legacies 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. —Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University This 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. —Alecia P. Long, Louisiana State University
Janet Allured (Author), Michael S. Martin (Author)
9781118541890, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 7 December 2012
352 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.499 kg
Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship.
Editors' Preface 1 PART ONE: LOUISIANA'S COLONIAL CONTEXT 3 The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 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 49 Desiring Total Tranquility—and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleans 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" 93 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 127 "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 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 177 When Plessy Met 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 209 "What he did and what he promised to do . . .": Huey Long and the Horizons of Louisiana Politics 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 257 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 289 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
by Daniel J. Usner 5
by Carl A. Brasseaux 25
by Light T. Cummins 37
by Kimberly Hanger 52
by Sara Brooks Sundberg 63
by Judith Kelleher Schafer 78
by Joseph G. Tregle, Jr. 95
by Justin Nystrom 108
by Michael G. Wade 129
by Joel M. Sipress 142
by Samuel Hyde, Jr. 154
by Alan G. Gauthreaux 164
by Keith Weldon Medley 180
by Elna C. Green 188
by Samuel C. Shepherd 197
by Jerry P. Sanson 212
by Glen Jeansonne 220
by Anthony J. Badger 232
by Kent B. Germany 248
by Adam Fairclough 259
by Lesley-Anne Reed 270
by J. Mark Souther 291
by Marcelle Bienvenu, Carl A. Brasseaux, and Ryan A. Brasseaux 314
by Tyler Priest and Jason P. Theriot 331
Subject Areas: History [HB]
