Research Catalog

Title

Louisiana : a history / edited by Bennett H. Wall and John C. Rodrigue ; by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz.

Author

Cummins, Light Townsend

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-
• Haas, Edward F.
• Kurtz, Michael L., 1941-
• Wall, Bennett H.
• Rodrigue, John C.

Description

vi, 540 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm

Subject

• Louisiana > History

Note

• Earlier edition entered under title.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-480) and index.

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.

Call Number

ITP 14-308

ISBN

• 9781118619292 (pbk.)
• 1118619293 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013027971

OCLC

855507149

Author

Cummins, Light Townsend, author.

Title

Louisiana : a history / edited by Bennett H. Wall and John C. Rodrigue ; by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz.

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Edition

Sixth edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-480) and index.

Added Author

Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942- author.

Haas, Edward F., author.

Kurtz, Michael L., 1941- author.

Wall, Bennett H., editor.

Rodrigue, John C., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Cummins, Light Townsend, author. Louisiana Sixth edition. Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2014 9781118619537 (DLC) 2013032611

Research Call Number

ITP 14-308