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Louisiana: A History

By Judith Kelleher Schafer , Bennett H Wall , John C. Rodrigue , Light Townsend Cummins , Edward F. Haas , Michael L. Kurtz

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2014
ISBN
1118619293, 9781118619292
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19967812 bytes)
Edition
6
Pages
552\552
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-07-01 23:36:55

Description

Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the marketCompiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveriesIncludes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spillConsiders the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a wholeWritten in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps

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