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Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935

Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Samuel C. HydePublish date:2018-06-16Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807169278ISBN-10:807169277UPC:9780807169278Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Violence in Society, History & TheoryBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.21 x 7.76 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCYRJN3W72

In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana's Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century.

Numerous pockets of small communities formed in the nineteenth-century South with cultures and values independent from those of the dominant planter class. As Hyde shows, one such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions com-bined to create an enclave of white yeomen, and where in the years after the Civil War, levels of conflict escalated to a state of chronic anar-chy. His careful study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph. Additional material reveals the ongoing impact of a culture riddled with suspicion and bitterness well into the Jim Crow era.
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807169278ISBN-10:807169277UPC:9780807169278Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Violence in Society, History & TheoryBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.21 x 7.76 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCYRJN3W72
Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., is Leon Ford professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University and the director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies. He is the author and editor of numerous books about the history of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, including, A Fierce and Fractious Frontier. The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000.
Publisher: LSU Press

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Samuel C. Hyde

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