Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
The New Orleans of George Washington Cable
The 1887 Census Office Report
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
A pioneering local-color writer about Creole New Orleans and a public advocate for black equality in his native South during and after Reconstruction, George Washington Cable (1844--1925) depicted in his writing the clash between American newcomers and a quaint but proud French-speaking population...
The Indians' New South
Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant...
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a...
by Jesus Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
In his stimulating study, Jesus Cruz examines middle-class lifestyles -- generally known as bourgeois culture -- in nineteenth-century Spain. Cruz argues that the middle class ultimately contributed to Spain's democratic stability and economic prosperity in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Interdisciplinary...
The River Flows On
Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyzes American...
The Republic of Men
Gender and the Political Parties in Interwar France
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In The Republic of Men, Geoff Read explores the intersection of gender bias and the eight most important political parties in interwar France, breaking new scholarly ground in profound ways. The first to compare gender discourse across the political spectrum in a national context and trace the origins...
Organizing for War
France, 1870-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
By the end of the Franco-Prussian War (1870--71), Germany occupied one-third of French territory, thousands of Alsatians and Lorrainers had flooded into France, and 140,000 French soldiers had died. France's crushing defeat in the most significant European armed conflict between the Napoleonic wars...
Eve's Enlightenment
Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent -- and justify -- women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, philanthropists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Robert Penn Warren was unique among twentieth-century American writers for having achieved excellence in a broad and assorted range of genres: poems, novels, plays, critical works, historical essays, personal essays, biography, and innovative textbooks. In this collection of essays, critics and poets...
by Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Herman Melville's Pierre; or. The Ambiguities has a storied place in the history of American publishing. Melville began writing this follow-up to Moby-Dick in October 1851, thinking that it might prove even more significant than its predecessor. The 1852 publication of Pierre was catastrophic, however....
The South That Wasn't There
Postsouthern Memory and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Once, history and "the South" dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed everybody knew what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less "there there" than ever before.
In The South That Wasn't...
The Southern Connection
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
This book collects the papers, together with the transcript of a panel discussion, that were the features of a conference held at Louisiana State University in 1985 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 'Southern Review.' It offers a a fascinating commentary on various aspects not only of one...
Hothead
A Poem
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Hothead is a haibun-patterned, book-length declamation in which no topic is off limits—Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, America, global warming, eros, mental illness, the natural world, technology, the aging body. Cushman’s poetry shows us how to live in a world in which it is difficult to balance “the...
by Martyn Bone
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
For generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography, or a "sense of place." In the 1930s, the Agrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the farm, in their definitions...