Louisiana

by Cummins, Light Townsend

• ISBN13: 9780882959641
• ISBN10: 0882959646
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Bennett H. Wall
Part 1	1	(94)
Light Townsend Cummins
Native Peoples and European Contact	3	(21)
The Founding of French Louisiana	24	(20)
Louisiana as a French Colony	44	(16)
Spanish Louisiana	60	(16)
The Final Years of Colonial Louisiana	76	(19)
Suggested Readings	89	(6)
Part 2	95	(126)
Judith Kelleher Schafer
The Territorial Period	97	(19)
The Political Development of Antebellum Louisiana	116	(30)
Life and Labor in Antebellum Louisiana	146	(43)
Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana	189	(32)
Suggested Readings	215	(6)
Part 3	221	(88)
Edward F. Haas
Uneasy Interlude, 1877-1892	223	(20)
Bourbonism, Populism, and a Little Progressivism, 1892-1924	243	(25)
The Time of the Kingfish, 1924-1935	268	(19)
The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877-1935	287	(22)
Suggested Readings	306	(3)
Part 4	309	(130)
Michael L. Kurtz
Corruption, Reform, and Reaction, 1936-1950	311	(24)
Reform and Race, 1950-1960	335	(24)
The Decline of Racism, 1960-1972	359	(16)
The Era of Edwin Edwards, 1972-1987	375	(24)
Contemporary Louisiana, 1987-2001	399	(40)
Suggested Readings	436	(3)
Appendix I	439	(3)
Appendix II	442	(6)
Appendix III	448	(1)
Index	449