| Editors' Preface |
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| Part One: Louisiana's Colonial Context |
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The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 |
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5 | (20) |
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The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1763 |
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25 | (12) |
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Oliver Pollock's Plantations: An Early Anglo Landowner on the Lower Mississippi, 1769-1824 |
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37 | (12) |
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| Part Two: Women, Race, And Class In Early Louisiana |
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Desiring Total Tranquility-and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleans |
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52 | (11) |
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A Female Planter from West Feliciano Parish: The Letters of Rachel O'Connor |
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63 | (15) |
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The Murder of a "Lewd and Abandoned Woman": State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker |
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78 | (15) |
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| Part Three: Transformation Of The Louisiana "Creole" |
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Early New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal |
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95 | (13) |
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In My Father's House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845-1875 |
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108 | (19) |
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| Part Four: Violent Louisiana |
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127 | (50) |
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"I Would Rather Be Among the Comanches": The Military Occupation of Southwest Louisiana, 1865 |
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129 | (13) |
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From the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parish |
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142 | (12) |
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Feuding Is Our Means of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern Louisiana's Piney Woods, 1877-1910 |
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154 | (10) |
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An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924 |
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164 | (13) |
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| Part Five: Progressives And Race |
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177 | (32) |
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180 | (8) |
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The Rest of the Story: Kate Gordon and the Opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment in the South |
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188 | (9) |
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In Pursuit of Louisiana Progressives |
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197 | (12) |
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| Part Six: Modern Louisiana Politics |
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"What he did and what he promised to do...": Huey Long and the Horizons of Louisiana Politics |
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212 | (8) |
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Huey Long: A Political Contradiction |
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220 | (12) |
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"When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty": Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928-2000 |
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232 | (16) |
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The Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina |
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248 | (9) |
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| Part Seven: Transitions In Race Relations |
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257 | (32) |
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Racial Repression in World War Two: The New Iberia Incident |
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259 | (11) |
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Transitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930-1950 |
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270 | (19) |
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| Part Eight: Culture And Environment In Modern Louisiana |
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Making the "Birthplace of Jazz": Tourism and Musical Heritage Marketing in New Orleans |
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291 | (23) |
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Commercialization of Cajun Cuisine |
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314 | (17) |
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Who Destroyed the Marsh?: Oil Field Canals, Coastal Ecology, and the Debate over Louisiana's Shrinking Wetlands |
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