Louisiana: a history / edited by Bennett H. Wall ; written by Charles Edwards O'Neill ... [et al.]. - Arlington Heights, Illinois : The Forum Press, 1984. - x, 398 p. : ill., plate., maps.; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploration and settlement, 1519-1715--- Scacity versus stability 1715-1768--- French Louisiana Becomes Spanish--- Spanish Louisiana--- Life in colonial Louisiana--- The territorial period--- The political development of antebellum Louisiana--- Civil war and reconstruction in Louisiana--- Uneasy interlude, 1877-1892--- Bourbonism, populism, and a little progressivism, 1892-1924--- Time of the kingfish, 1924-1935--- The Struggle to Catch Up, 1877-1935--- Corruption, reform and reaction, 1936-1950--- Reform and race: 1950-1960--- The rise and fall odf racism, 1960-1972--- Comtemporary Louisiana.

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