The Literature of the Louisiana Territory
Author : Alexander Nicolas De Menil
Publisher : St. Louis, Mo. : [s.n.]
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1904
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Nicolas De Menil
Publisher : St. Louis, Mo. : [s.n.]
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1904
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Nicolas De Menil
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1476502366
"Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766029026
"A basic discussion about the history of the Louisiana Purchase, and how the United States expanded their lands by buying the Louisiana Territory from France"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alexander Nicolas 1849 De Menil
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372775871
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Author : Charles A. Cerami
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A momentous moment in American history, one that forever changed the scope of the nation and its people.
Author : Alexander Nicolas De Menil
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Periodicals
ISBN :
Author : Joe Gray Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1984-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393243745
From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side. Handing the colony of Louisiana back and forth between their empires, the French and Spanish left a legacy that lives in such forms as the architecture of the Vieux Carre and a civil law deriving from the Napoleonic Code. Acadian refugees, German farmers, black slaves and free blacks, along with Italians, Irish, and the "Kaintucks" who helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans added to the state's distinctiveness. Made rich by sugar cane, cotton, and Mississippi River commerce before the Civil War, Louisiana faced poverty afterward. Battles between Bourbon Democrats and Reconstruction Republicans followed, ultimately involving the Custom House Ring and the Knights of the White Camelia. By methods that remain controversial, Huey Long ended "government by gentlemen" with economic transformations other had sought. Gas, oil, and industrialization have additionally "Americanized" the state. Something of Louisiana's historic joie de vivre remains, however, to the gratification of residents and visitors alike; both will enjoy Joe Gray Taylor's telling of the story.
Author : Eberhard L. Faber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1400873525
The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, Building the Land of Dreams is the narrative biography of a fascinating city at the most crucial turning point in its history. Eberhard Faber tells the vivid story of how American rule forced New Orleans through a vast transition: from the ordered colonial world of hierarchy and subordination to the fluid, unpredictable chaos of democratic capitalism. The change in authority, from imperial Spain to Jeffersonian America, transformed everything. As the city’s diverse people struggled over the terms of the transition, they built the foundations of a dynamic, contentious hybrid metropolis. Faber describes the vital individuals who played a role in New Orleans history: from the wealthy creole planters who dreaded the influx of revolutionary ideas, to the American arrivistes who combined idealistic visions of a new republican society with selfish dreams of quick plantation fortunes, to Thomas Jefferson himself, whose powerful democratic vision for Louisiana eventually conflicted with his equally strong sense of realpolitik and desire to strengthen the American union. Revealing how New Orleans was formed by America’s greatest impulses and ambitions, Building the Land of Dreams is an inspired exploration of one of the world’s most iconic cities.
Author : Nancy J. Parezo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803213948
As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. This title shows how anthropology showcased itself "to show each half of the world how the other half lives".