Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: P-Z
Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Historic Baton Rouge
Author: Sylvia Frank RodriguePublisher: Community Heritage
ISBN: 9781935377498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Commissioned by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana."
New Orleans City Guide
Author: Works Progress AdministrationPublisher: Garrett County Press
ISBN: 189105340X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.
Ligon Family and Connections
Author: W. D. Ligon, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740406775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 943
Book Description
The Founding of New Acadia
Author: Carl A. BrasseauxPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807141632
Category : Cajuns
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Antebellum Natchez
Author: D. Clayton JamesPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807118603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Antebellum Natchez is most often associated with the grand and romantic aspects of the Old South and its landed gentry. Yet there was, as this book so amply illustrates, another Natchez—the Natchez of ordinary citizens, small businessmen, and free Negroes, and the Natchez under-the-Hill of brawling boatmen, professional gamblers, and bold-faced strumpets. Antebellum Natchez not only takes a critical look at the town’s aristocracy but also examines the depth of its commercial activities and the life of its middle- and lower-class elements. Author D. Clayton James brings the political, economic, and social aspects of antebellum Natchez into perspective and debunks a number of myths and illusions, including the notion that the town was a stronghold of Federalism and Whiggery. Starting with the Natchez Indians and their “Sun God” culture, James traces the development of the town from the native village through the plotting and intrigue of the changing regimes of the French, Spanish, British, and Americans. James makes a perceptive analysis of the aristocrats’ role in restricting the growth of the town, which in 1800 appeared likely to become the largest city in the transmontane region. “The attitudes and behavior of the aristocrats of Natchez during the final three decades of the antebellum period were characterized by escapism and exclusiveness,” says James. “With the aristocrats sullenly withdrawing into their world...Natchez lost forever the opportunity to become a major metropolis, and Mississippi was led to ruin.” Quoting generously from diaries, journals, and other records, the author gives the reader a valuable insight into what life in a Southern town was like before the Civil War. Antebellum Natchez is an important account of the role of Natchez and its colorful figures—John Quitman, Robert Walker, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, William C. C. Claiborne, and a host of others—in the colonial affairs of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the growth of the Old Southwest.