Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
Reconstruction in Alabama
From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social history of emancipation and the hopefulness that reunification would bring equality. Much of this revisionist work served to counter and correct the racist and pro-Confederate...
Generals in Blue
Lives of the Union Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
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Confederate Political Economy
Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government. As Bonner shows,...
Troubled Waters
Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of...
Lee's Tigers
The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Sometimes called the "wharf rats from New Orleans" and the "lowest scrapings of the Mississippi," Lee's Tigers were the approximately twelve thousand Louisiana infantrymen who served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from the time of the campaign at First Manassas to the final days of the...
The Pride of the Confederate Artillery
The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
In The Pride of the Confederate Artillery, Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., illustrates the significance of the unit and, for the first time, positions this pivotal group in its rightful place in history. The Fifth Company, Washington Artillery of New Orleans, fought with the Army of Tennessee from...
Cold Harbor
Grant and Lee, May 26–June 3, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and...
Audacity Personified
The Generalship of Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Despite the literary outpouring on the life of Robert E. Lee, the southern chieftain remains an enigma. The existing scholarship is so voluminous, complex, and contradictory that it is difficult to penetrate the inner Lee and appreciate him as a general. Peter S. Carmichael has assembled a formidable...
Marketing the Blue and Gray
Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.’s Marketing the Blue and Gray analyzes newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Newspapers circulated widely between 1861 and 1865, and merchants took full advantage of this readership. They marketed everything from war bonds to biographies of military and political...
by Scott Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In this debut work, Scott Eastman tackles the complex issue of nationalism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish Atlantic empire. Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic challenges the idea that nationalism arose from the ashes of confessional society. Rather, the tenets...
by Erik Lars Myrup
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal's early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup's Power...
American Slavery, Irish Freedom
Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Irish Americans who supported the movement for the repeal of the act of parliamentary union between Ireland and Great Britain during the early 1840s encountered controversy over the issue of American slavery. Encouraged by abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic, repeal leader Daniel O'Connell...
The Last Battle of the Civil War
United States versus Lee, 1861-1883
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v. Lee, known to history as the...
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini
Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini, two of the foremost radicals of the nineteenth century, lived during a time of profound economic, social, and political transformation in America and Europe. Both born in 1805, but into dissimilar family backgrounds, the American Garrison and Italian Mazzini...