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Worldly Rites: The Social And Political Significance Of Religious Services In Louisiana, 1803--1865., Julia Huston Nguyen
Worldly Rites: The Social And Political Significance Of Religious Services In Louisiana, 1803--1865., Julia Huston Nguyen
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In antebellum and Civil War Louisiana, religious rituals contained more than spiritual meaning. They also carried social and political significance that can illustrate a great deal about that society. Sabbath services, holidays, revivals, baptisms, weddings, and funerals all reflected the values that Louisianans believed to be important. By looking at religion and the ways that residents of Louisiana experienced it, not only on a daily basis but also during the major milestones of life, one can come to a greater understanding of the ways in which they structured their society and interacted with it. Through an examination of Louisiana religion, …
The Power Of Ethnicity: The Preservation Of Scots -Irish Culture In The Eighteenth-Century American Backcountry., Kevin Lee Yeager
The Power Of Ethnicity: The Preservation Of Scots -Irish Culture In The Eighteenth-Century American Backcountry., Kevin Lee Yeager
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The character of the Scots-Irish has been shrouded in myth almost from the moment the first Ulster immigrants disembarked at Philadelphia in the 1710s. Contemporaries condemned the Scots-Irish as lazy, illiterate, uncouth, and violent. Later hagiographers, however, praised them as ruggedly individualistic, liberty-loving people who brought civilization to the American wilderness. Recent historians have done little to advance this debate. While re-stating these simplistic stereotypes, modern scholars have failed to ground their arguments in extensive analyses of primary sources. While numerous monographs studying other ethnic and cultural groups in colonial America have appeared over the last thirty years, none as …
"A Perfect War": Politics And Parties In Louisiana, 1824--1861., John Michael Sacher
"A Perfect War": Politics And Parties In Louisiana, 1824--1861., John Michael Sacher
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
My dissertation explores Louisiana's political development from 1824 to 1861. Many antebellum state studies have been written, but none focus specifically on Louisiana. While sharing the rest of the South's commitment to slavery and cotton, Louisiana possessed atypical attributes including: a unique ethnic composition, a sugar cane crop dependent upon a protective tariff, and the presence of New Orleans, the South's foremost commercial city. Louisiana's antebellum political situation resulted from the interaction of these distinctive traits with the characteristics that Louisiana shared in common with the rest of the United States. The primary focus of this political narrative is the …
Progressive Civic Development And Political Conflict: Regular Democrats And Reformers In New Orleans, 1896-1912., Robert Louis Dupont
Progressive Civic Development And Political Conflict: Regular Democrats And Reformers In New Orleans, 1896-1912., Robert Louis Dupont
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The 1896 elections in Louisiana produced a Regular Democrat as governor, but a reform government within New Orleans. The turbulence of the Populist era led to the unification of political factions behind disfranchisement of blacks and a narrowing of the electorate. In spite of attempts to make their triumph permanent, New Orleans reformers gave way to a resurgent Regular Democratic organization, the Choctaw Club, which dominated city politics for the first half of the twentieth century. Mayors Paul Capdevielle and Martin Behrman successfully led the city in an era of commercial expansion, public works, and municipal reform. That leadership persisted …
Daniel Pratt Of Prattville: A Northern Industrialist And A Southern Town., Curt John Evans
Daniel Pratt Of Prattville: A Northern Industrialist And A Southern Town., Curt John Evans
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation explores the life of Daniel Pratt, one of the South's most important industrialists. Daniel Pratt was born in Temple, New Hampshire on July 20, 1799. In 1821, he migrated to Jones County, Georgia, where he worked as a carpenter-architect for ten years. He married Esther Ticknor of Connecticut in 1827 Samuel Griswold hired Pratt in 1831 to superintend his cotton gin factory in Jones County. Two years later, Pratt migrated to Autauga County in central Alabama, where he started his own gin shop. In 1839, Pratt founded Prattville, located fourteen miles from Alabama's capital, Montgomery. The next year, …
Palmerston, Parliament And Peking: The Melbourne Ministry And The Opium Crisis, 1835-1840., Glenn Paul Melancon
Palmerston, Parliament And Peking: The Melbourne Ministry And The Opium Crisis, 1835-1840., Glenn Paul Melancon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
"Palmerston, Parliament and Peking" is a revisionist work designed to challenge the prevailing economic interpretations of the first Opium War, 1839-1842. Orthodox historiography considers early nineteenth-century Britain as a modern, industrial society and argues that its Government needed to respond violently to the Chinese authorities' suppression of the opium trade in order to protect and expand a lucrative endeavor. Indian opium sales generated revenue for the British-run government in Bengal and paid for Chinese tea, a highly prized commodity in Great Britain. British industrialists demanded war to end the Chinese Government's restrictions on trade, known as the Canton system, thus …
The Clan Of Toil: Piney Woods Labor Relations In The Trans-Mississippi South, 1880-1920. (Volumes I-Iii)., John Reed Tarver
The Clan Of Toil: Piney Woods Labor Relations In The Trans-Mississippi South, 1880-1920. (Volumes I-Iii)., John Reed Tarver
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Lumber boomed in the Reconstructed South, an industrial binge that, by 1920, changed the landscape, first removing the forest then replacing its subsistence economy with consumerism. Men with money made fortunes in lumber. West of the Mississippi and south of the Missouri, it became a bonanza by 1880. Within these boundaries, black and white farmers and field hands sought "public work" in sawmills and log fronts. Most were unskilled. Steam power changed their lives, although all did not respond alike. They kept their folk ways, consistent with the new industry, despite their bondage to machines. Although most workers voluntarily entered …
Mercenaries And Auxiliaries: Foreign Soldiers In The Armies Of Henry Vii And Henry Viii, With Special Reference To Their Origins, Recruitment,And Employment In The French War Of 1544--1546. (Volumes I And Ii)., Gilbert John Millar
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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Henry Winter Davis: Border State Radical. (Volumes I And Ii)., Milton Lyman Henry Jr
Henry Winter Davis: Border State Radical. (Volumes I And Ii)., Milton Lyman Henry Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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Thirty Years With Calhoun, Rhett, And The Charleston Mercury: A Chapter In South Carolina Politics., John Stanford Coussons
Thirty Years With Calhoun, Rhett, And The Charleston Mercury: A Chapter In South Carolina Politics., John Stanford Coussons
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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That Man Haupt: A Biography Of Herman Haupt., James Arthur Ward Iii
That Man Haupt: A Biography Of Herman Haupt., James Arthur Ward Iii
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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Sir John Peter Grant, Governor Of Jamaica, 1866-1874: An Administrative History., Vincent John Marsala
Sir John Peter Grant, Governor Of Jamaica, 1866-1874: An Administrative History., Vincent John Marsala
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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John Slidell And The Community He Represented In The Senate, 1853-1861., Albert Lewie Diket
John Slidell And The Community He Represented In The Senate, 1853-1861., Albert Lewie Diket
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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