Screen LibraryLouisiana : a history /
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; ; |
| Published: |
Wiley Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.itextbook.cn/f/book/bookDetail?bookId=74dde5a093504dc0a59027b89c488241 |
| Item Description: |
Earlier edition entered under title. Description based on print version record. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118619537 |
| Index Number: | F369 |
| CLC: | K712.9 |
| Contents: | Part One / by Light Townsend Cummins. Native peoples and European contact -- The 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. |