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French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World
French colonial Louisiana has failed to occupy a place in the historic consciousness of the United States, perhaps owing to its short duration (1699--1762) and its standing outside the dominant narrative of the British colonies in North America. This anthology seeks to locate early Louisiana in its proper place, bringing together a broad range of scholarship that depicts a complex and vibrant sphere. Colonial Louisiana comprised the vast center of what would become the United States. It lay between Spanish, British, and French colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and between woodland and eastern plains Indians. As such, it provided a meeting place for Europeans, Africans, and native Americans, functioning as a crossroads between the New World and other worlds. While acknowledging colonial Louisiana's peripheral position in U.S. and Atlantic World history, this volume demonstrates that the colony stands at the thematic center of the shared narratives and historiographies of diverse places. Through its twelve essays, French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World tells a whole story, the story of a place that belongs to the historic narrative of the Atlantic World.
Political Culture in the Nineteenth-century South
Despite its idiosyncrasies, Mississippi offers historians a better view of the nineteenth-century South than does any other state. Between 1830 and 1860 it evolved from a sparsely settled wilderness into a prosperous part of the cotton kingdom only to emerge from the 1860s impoverished and in search of industrial-commercial development. Bradley G. Bond tells the story of a century by tracing the social ethic of white Mississippians and describing its effect on the political culture. He argues that the Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction, industrialization, and modernization severely tried and significantly modified this social ethic, but ultimately it was forged of an enduring principle:...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 10: Law and Politics
Debating Slavery
Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history.
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Black Ranching Frontiers
In this volume, Andrew Sluyter demonstrates that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labour, property and commerce in the Atlantic world.
