Lsu Press: 854 books
Southern Outcast
Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the...
From Chaos to Continuity
The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712–1862
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Historians have long viewed Louisiana as an anomaly in the American judicial system-an eccentric appendage at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The diverse Creole culture and civilian heritage of the state's legal system have led many scholars to conclude that it is an anachronism in American law...
Creole
The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderstanding. Now both aspects of this unique people and culture are given thorough, illuminating scrutiny in Creole, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary history of Louisiana's Creole population. Written by scholars, many of...
A History of French Louisiana
The Company of the Indies, 1723–1731
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
The first four volumes of Marcel Giraud's History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France's establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. In this fifth and final volume of Giraud's magnum opus, published...
Slave against Slave
Plantation Violence in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until...
From Rebellion to Revolution
Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
In perhaps his most provocative book Eugene Genovese examines the slave revolts of the New World and places them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favored these revolts and the history of slave guerrilla warfare throughout the western hemisphere, he connects the...
The Slaveholding Crisis
Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln’s place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, southerners—both slaveholders...
When the War Was Over
The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865--1867
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the...
by Gelien Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean...
John Pendleton Kennedy
Early American Novelist, Whig Statesman, and Ardent Nationalist
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795--1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and serving as secretary of the navy during the Fillmore...
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens
Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were...
Nothing But Freedom
Emancipation and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach,...
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
A History of the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1981
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Time Beginnings
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
In his poem “Afterward,” James Applewhite imagines a curious Eve in the Garden of Eden, her eye falling upon a twisting river and an S-shaped snake before she eats from the tree of knowledge, choosing change over stasis. Applewhite’s new collection Time Beginnings casts a keenly observant eye...