Lsu Press: 854 books
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana
From 1542 to the Present Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1987
Although many specialized studies have been written about Louisiana's Indian tribes, no complete account has appeared regarding their long, varied history. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present is a highly informative study that reconstructs the history and cultural evolution...
The Caddos and Their Ancestors
Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century. Employing the results of recent scientific...
The Problem of Emancipation
The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History
While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
During the 1990s, the Republican party surged to majority status in the South after two decades of struggling unevenly to become established in the formerly one-party Democratic section of the country. In this comprehensive, up-to-date study, seasoned observers tell the fascinating story of the GOP’s...
When Freedom Would Triumph
The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954–1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
When Freedom Would Triumph recalls the most significant and inspiring legislative battle of the twentieth century -- the two decades of struggle in the halls of Congress that resulted in civil rights for the descendants of American slaves. Robert Mann's comprehensive analysis shows how political leaders...
The Children of Africa in the Colonies
Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
How emancipation transformed social and political relations in Barbados
When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that...
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War. This groundbreaking...
Political Belief in France, 1927-1945
Gender, Empire, and Fascism in the Croix de Feu and Parti Social Francais
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In the inter war era, the rise of the largest political movement in modern French history, the powerful Croix de Feu (1927–1936), and its successor, the Parti Social Français, or PSF (1936–1945), led to a sharp rightward turn in France’s political culture. Political Belief in France, 1927–1945...
Downstream Toward Home
A Book of Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the excitement and escape they offer develops into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver A. Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways,from unnamed creeks and Louisiana swamps to...
New Orleans on Parade
Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans became...
Louisiana Saturday Night
Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-Tonks, and Dance Halls
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs.
Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south Louisiana's...
by Richard Campanella
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city’s distinct urbanism and eccentricities. In Cityscapes of New Orleans, Campanella—a historical geographer and professor at Tulane University—reveals the why behind the where,...
Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects
Louisiana Plantations in 1926
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here.
Richard...
Breach
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
In Breach, New Orleans native Nicole Cooley recalls Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in gritty, poignant detail, bearing witness to the destruction of a region and to its recovery. Ranging from the urgent to the reflective, these poems speak not only to the horrors of the immediate disaster, but...