Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: Native Peoples and European Contact; The Founding of French Louisiana; Louisiana as a French Colony; Spanish Louisiana; The Final Years of Colonial Louisiana; The Territorial Period; The Political Development of Antebellum Louisiana; Life and Labour in Antebellum Louisiana; Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana; Uneasy Interlude, 1877-1892; Bourbonism, Populism, and a Little Progressivism, 1892-1924; The Time of the Kingfish, 1924-1935; The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877-1935; Corruption, Reform, and Reaction, 1936-1950; Reform and Race, 1950-1960; The Decline of Racism, 1960-1972; The Era of Edwin Edwards, 1972-1987; Contemporary Louisiana, 1987-1996.
