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Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.
In Dollars for Dixie, Katherine Rye Jewell demonstrates how conservative southern industrialists pursued a political campaign to preserve regional economic arrangements.
The 14th Station is a novel about a young lady named Mary Farwell originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, who decided that living on a plantation out in the country would be an ideal situation for her. Consequently, she visited Nora and Thomas Becnel living on Tree Alley Plantation near the small town of Hahnville, Louisiana. Mary showed the Becnels a letter from her father indicating he desired for them to allow Mary to live with them for an unspecified period of time so she could get adjusted to living on a plantation.
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A consideration of the lobster in history, myth, art, literature, and cuisine
From the foundation of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP in 1915 to the beginning of Edwin Edwards' first term as governor in 1972, this is a wide-ranging study of the civil rights struggle in Louisiana. This edition contains a new preface which brings the narrative up-to-date, including coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of formidable Republican strength in the previously solid Democratic South has generated a novel and highly competitive national battle for control of Congress. Tracing the slow and difficult rise of Republicans in the South over five decades, Earl and Merle Black tell the remarkable story of political upheaval. The Rise of Southern Republicans provides a compelling account of growing competitiveness in Southern party politics and elections. Through extraordinary research and analysis, the authors track Southern voters' shifting economi...