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Louisiana Place Names
LSU Press 2012; US$ 39.95From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D?Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state?s history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an entertaining guide to Louisiana?s place name lore. Leeper... more...
A Perfect War of Politics
LSU Press 2003; US$ 17.95Though antebellum Louisiana shared the rest of the South?s commitment to slavery and cotton, the presence of a substantial sugarcane industry, large Creole and Catholic populations, numerous foreign and northern immigrants, and the immense city of New Orleans made it perhaps the most unsouthern of southern states. John M. Sacher?s A Perfect War of... more...
Fleur de Lys and Calumet
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 35.00Andre Penicaut, a carpenter, sailed with Iberville to the French province of Louisiana in 1699 and did not return to France until 1721. The book he began in the province and finished upon his return to France is an eyewitness account of the first years of the French colony, which stretched along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas and in the Mississippi... more...
The Louisiana Scalawags
LSU Press 2013; US$ 32.50During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term ?scalawag? referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, scalawags challenged the restoration of the antebellum political and social orders. Derided as opportunists, uneducated ?poor white trash,? Union sympathizers,... more...
River Road Rambler
LSU Press 2013; US$ 19.95The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this richly historic corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places. In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen sketches about sites along this scenic route.... more...
Along the River Road
LSU Press 2013; US$ 22.95Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana?s River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked... more...
Louisiana Legacies
Wiley 2012; US$ 26.95Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship. Includes readings featuring recent scholarship that expand on traditional historical accounts Includes material on every region of Louisiana Covers a... more...
Crucible of Reconstruction
LSU Press 1984; US$ 20.95In late April, 1862, Union warships slipped past the Confederate river forts below New Orleans and blasted the Rebel fleet guarding the city. Advancing overland, General Benjamin F. Butler occupied New Orleans on May Day, and for the duration of the war the Stars and Stripes waved over the Confederacy's largest city. The reconstruction of Louisiana... more...
The Louisiana Populist Movement, 1881-1900
LSU Press 2011; US$ 24.95The Populist movement of the late nineteenth century represents one of the largest third-party challenges in American history. Throughout the South widespread drops in crop prices led to agrarian revolt, which contributed to its popularity. Yet, in the largely rural state of Louisiana, despite the political group?s focus on empowering distressed farmers,... more...
No More, No More
University of Minnesota Press 2004; US$ 60.00This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two societies?Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century?created their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime?s assault. No More, No More elucidates the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the efforts at cultural resistance... more...









