Lsu Press: 854 books
Slaves for Hire
Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In Slaves for Hire, John J. Zaborney overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labor in the antebellum South. Previously, scholars viewed slave hiring as an aberration -- a modified form of slavery, involving primarily urban male slaves, that worked to the laborer's advantage and weakened slavery's...
Genteel Rebel
The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2003
This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman’s life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819–1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren’s son, drank tea with Dolley...
Bridging Southern Cultures
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the South's leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and culture, this exciting...
Composing Selves
Southern Women and Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides the most comprehensive treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the...
Politics and Power in a Slave Society
Alabama, 1800--1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society...
by Warren M. Billings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Sir William Berkeley (1605--1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American self-rule. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat,...
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds
LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom...
To Face Down Dixie
South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In an era during which the United States Supreme Court handed down some of its most important decisions, including Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Baker v. Carr (1962), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966), three senators from South Carolina—Olin Johnston, Strom Thurmond, and Ernest “Fritz” Hollings—waged...
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
Readings and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889--1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer's essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians,...
Spans
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but finds pleasure in events as predictable as the changing of the seasons or as uncomplicated as a visit to an art museum. Morgan accepts the inevitability of...
An Unnatural Metropolis
Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces...
Bayou-Diversity
Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands, marshes, and even uplands to dominate the state's landscape. In Bayou-Diversity, conservationist Kelby...
Trail of Bones
More Cases from the Files of a Forensic Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
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Raised to Rule
Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation...