Pistols And Politics: Feuds, Factions, And The Struggle For Order In Louisianaæs Florida Parishes, 1810Û1935

In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in LouisianaÆs 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.

• | Author: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
• | Publisher: Lsu Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0807169277
• | ISBN-13: 9780807169278