Author: Roger Wallace ShuggPublisher: Lsu Press
ISBN: 9780807101360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana
Author: Roger Wallace ShuggPublisher: Lsu Press
ISBN: 9780807101360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana; A Social History of White Farmers and Laborers During Slavery and After, 1840-1875, by Roger W. Shugg
Author: Roger Wallace ShuggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana
Author: Roger Wallace ShuggPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608137483
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana* a Social History of White Farmers and Laborers During Slavery and After, 1840-1874
Author: Roger Wallace ShuggThe Roots of Southern Populism : Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890
Author: San Diego Steven Hahn Associate Professor of History University of CaliforniaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198020430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In this examination of the rise of agrarian radicalism in the late 19th-century South, Hahn focuses on social change and popular consciousness while exploring populism's kinship with other movements such as labour radicalism.
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
Author: C. Vann WoodwardPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
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Poor Whites of the Antebellum South
Author: Charles C. BoltonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Bolton (history, U. of Southern Mississippi) illuminates the social complexity surrounding the lives of a group consistently dismissed as rednecks, crackers, and white trash: landless white tenants and laborers in the era of slavery. A short epilogue looks at their lives today. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
Author: Theodore W. AllenPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781689695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no "white" people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America's ruling classes created the category of the "white race" as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, and that fact has been central to maintaining ruling-class domination over ordinary working people of all colors throughout American history. Volume I draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the "white" oppression of Native Americans and African Americans. Allen details how Irish immigrants fleeing persecution learned to spread racial oppression in their adoptive country as part of white America. Since publication in the mid-nineties, The Invention of the White Race has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. In this updated edition, scholar Jeffrey B. Perry provides a new introduction, a short biography of the author and a study guide.
A Perfect War of Politics
Author: John M. SacherPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713242X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Though antebellum Louisiana shared the rest of the South's commitment to slavery and cotton, the presence of a substantial sugarcane industry, large Creole and Catholic populations, numerous foreign and northern immigrants, and the immense city of New Orleans made it perhaps the most unsouthern of southern states. John M. Sacher's A Perfect War of Politics explores why Louisiana joined its neighbors in seceding from the Union in early 1861 and offers the first comprehensive study of the state's antebellum political parties and their interaction with the electorate. Sacher shows that, although civic participation expanded beyond the elite from 1824 to 1861, Louisiana remained a "white men's democracy." Ultimately, he explains, an obsession with defending white men's liberty led Louisiana's politicians to support secession. Sacher's welcome study provides a fresh, grass-roots perspective on the political causes of the Civil War and confirms the dominant role regional politics played in antebellum Louisiana.
Pistols And Politics
Author: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807122709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the nineteenth-century South, there existed numerous local pockets where cultures and values different from those of the dominant planter class prevailed. One such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions combined to create an enclave of white yeomen. In the years after the Civil War, levels of violence among these men escalated to create a state of chronic anarchy, producing an enduring legacy of bitterness and suspicion. In Samuel C. Hyde's careful and original study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos, he illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph. Early in the century, the Florida parishes were characterized by an exceptional level of social and political turmoil. Stability emerged as the cotton economy expanded into the piney-woods parishes during the 1820s and 1830s, bringing with it slaves and prosperity -- but also bringing increasing dominance of the region by a powerful planter elite that shaped state government to suit its purposes. By the early 1840s, Jacksonian political rhetoric inspired a newfound assertiveness among the common folk. With the construction of a railroad through the piney-woods region at the close of the antebellum period and the collapse of the planter class at the end of the Civil War, the plain folk were finally able to reject the planters' authority. Traditional patterns of political and economic stability were permanently disrupted, and the residents -- their Jeffersonian traditions now corrupted by the brutal war and Reconstruction periods -- rejected all governance and resorted increasingly to violence as the primary solution to conflict. For the remainder of the nineteenth century, the Florida Parishes had some of the highest murder rates in the country. In Pistols and Politics, Hyde gives serious scrutiny to a region heretofore largely neglected by historians, integrating the anomalies of one area of Louisiana into the history of the state and the wider South. He reassesses the prevailing myth of poverty in the piney woods, portrays the conscious methods of the ruling planter elite to manipulate the common people, and demonstrates the destructive possibilities inherent in the area's political traditions as well as the complex mores, values, and dynamics of a society that produced some of the fiercest and most enduring feuds in American history.