A century of progress in Louisiana, 1852-1952
Author | : Southern Pacific Railroad Company |
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Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Southern Pacific Railroad Company |
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Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Christopher G. Peña |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2004-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 141845544X |
Excluding the capture of New Orleans, the military affairs in southeast Louisiana during the American Civil War have long been viewed by scholars and historians has having no strategic importance during the war. As such, no such serious effort to chronicle the war in that portion of the state has been attempted, except Peas earlier book, Touched By War: Battles Fought in the Lafourche District (1998). That book covered the military affairs in southeast Louisiana that led to the five major battles fought in that region between fall 1862 and summer 1863. Beyond that point, little is chronicled, until now. In this thoroughly researched and authoritative book, Scarred By War: Civil War in Southeast Louisiana, Christopher Pea has revised and updated his earlier work and expanded the scope to include a study of the remaining two years of the war, a period filled with intense Confederate guerilla warfare. The literary result is a book that recounts the political, social, military, and economic aspects of the war as they played out in southeast Louisianas bayou country.
Author | : Richard Follett |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807132470 |
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.
Author | : William Arceneaux |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807130254 |
On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. He was bound, gagged, blindfolded, stabbed more than fifty times, and robbed of over $5,000. Ten months later, after one of the most extensive manhunts in nineteenth-century Louisiana, public shock and outrage reemerged when two teenage brothers from France, Ernest and Alexis Blanc, were arrested for the crime. William Arceneaux sets the story of Begnaud's murder, the Blanc brothers' trial, and the media circus surrounding it all against the backdrop of Acadian history -- from the 1604 establishment of a French colony in the Canadian maritime provinces to the eventual creation of a "New Acadia"in South Louisiana. By intertwining a suspenseful account of this heinous crime with an exploration of the citizens it affected, No Spark of Malice provides insight into a fascinating people, place, and era.
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Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1952-11 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
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Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Author | : James P. Baughman |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Richard Lee Nostrand |
Publisher | : Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
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Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
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