Bøger udgivet af Louisiana State University Press

In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental "playground revolution" still remain. Marie Warsh tells the history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and '70s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, and child-development theories of the period.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of the commercially and government-generated visual and material culture of the Confederate States of America. This book shows that they built and shared a sense of who they were through theatrical performances, military clothing, and manufactured goods, as well as printed material.

In this highly revisionist study, Adam Petty tracks how veterans and historians of the Civil War created and perpetuated myths about the Wilderness, a forest in Virginia that served as the backdrop for three of the war's most interesting campaigns.

The 31st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was one of only a handful of New England units to serve in Louisiana and the Gulf region during the Civil War, and it remained there the longest. This authoritative history of the 31st is the first comprehensive examination of this remarkable regiment and its men.

Contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books - Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds - as well as the additional poems that appeared in the three editions of his Selected Poems. The volume also collects poems published only in newspapers and magazines.

An unwaveringly confident debut collection and an exciting contribution to contemporary poetry. This collection does not invite us but compels us to look with the poet, as Leanna Petronella addresses the female body and female relationships with rare candour and emotional resonance.

A book born out of interviews Alexandre Leupin had with Francis X. Pavy, a significant painter of Southern culture with a career spanning five decades. The book begins with a general introduction situating Pavy in the history of painting, reproduces Leupin and Pavy's interviews over the years, and presents Pavy's sources of artistic inspiration.

Explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were founded during the early French imperial expansion of the Atlantic world. Both became important port cities of their own continents, the Atlantic world as a whole, and the African diaspora.

The artist Conrad Albrizio, a New York City native who studied internationally, made his home in New Orleans for half a century. To the people of Louisiana and Alabama, he bestowed the lasting gift of large-scale public frescoes. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Carolyn Bercier analyses Albrizio's frescoes against the backdrop of his life.

The first book to provide a comprehensive narrative account of Mark Twain's intimate and long-lasting creative engagement with the Mississippi. This expansive study traces two separate but richly intertwined stories of the river as America moved from the aftermath of the Civil War toward modernity.

Analyses newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Lawrence Kreiser argues that the marketing strategies of the time show how commercialization and patriotism became increasingly intertwined as Union and Confederate war aims evolved.

Engages a wide variety of sources - including United States census data, which many historians have underutilized when gauging economic growth in the prewar South - to show how industrial development in the region has been systematically minimized by scholars.

During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War.

Offers an in-depth examination of Alabama's black and white Union soldiers and their contributions to the eventual success of the Union army. Christopher Rein contends that the state's anti-Confederate residents tendered an important service to the North, primarily by collecting intelligence and protecting logistical infrastructure.

A collection of lyric essays that considers the way subjects, stories, facts, and memories are as interconnected as streams. Heidi Czerwiec explores the interlocking issues created by the oilfields of North Dakota; the ephemerality of perfume, canning tomatoes, a fungus that infects and transforms mushrooms; and being the focus of internet hate.

A multifaceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued.

Argues that decadence can convey a more nuanced meaning than simple decay or decline conceived in physical, social, or moral terms. Instead, within New Orleans literature, decadence possesses a complex, even paradoxical relationship with beauty and health, progress, and technological advance.

Examines Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, and identifies aspects of management that offer more positive examples of leadership than bureaucratic and media reports indicated. Drawing on insights from crisis and disaster management studies, the authors objectively analyze the actions of various officials and organisations during and after Katrina.

For over four decades, John Coykendall's passion has been preserving the farm heritage of a small community in rural southeastern Louisiana. In Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds and Stories, Coykendall shares a wealth of materials collected in his journals, ensuring they are passed on to future generations.

Set in and around the fictional town of Steepleburg, South Carolina, the loosely tied stories in George Singleton's Staff Picks place sympathetic, oddball characters in absurd, borderline surreal situations that slowly reveal the angst of southern history with humour and bite.

Examines what Ashley Hinck calls "fan-based citizenship": civic action that blends with and arises from participation in fandom and commitment to a fan-object. Hinck argues that fan-based citizenship has created new civic practices wherein popular culture may play a large role in generating social action.

A collection of essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations.

Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coupe today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupe illustrates why the saga of this notorious escaped slave should be a touchstone among scholars and students of the African diaspora.

Offers the first complete collection of Margaret Stones's Louisiana illustrations on archival, acid-free paper, reproduced in elegant, oversize prints. Paired with botanical descriptions, these exceptional museum-quality reproductions of the artist's watercolors provide intimate access to the precision and delicacy that define Stones's mastery.

In a career that spanned half a century, Caroline Durieux created prints that chronicled the beauty and absurdity of academia, New Orleans's famed Carnival season, characters observed from everyday life, and more. This book brings together fifty-eight images that reveal her keen understanding of both the comic and tragic aspects of satire.

Lays to rest assumptions that American Indian communities vanished long ago from urban south Louisiana and recovers the experiences of Native Americans in Old New Orleans from their perspective.

Shows visitors how to experience the Big Easy like a local, looking past staples like beignets and Bourbon Street to reveal a city bursting with contemporary and experimental art, genre-busting DJs, international cuisines, and even kid-friendly activities.

With a focus on practicality and accessibility, contributors explore the complexities of Louisiana's economic reality and explain the state's current tax structure. In so doing, they suggest reforms that challenge the state's use of sales tax, application of the individual income tax, approach to corporate taxation, and allocation of other taxes.

Examines the ways in which Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Virginians, George Washington, James Madison, and Patrick Henry, both conceptualized their home state from a political and cultural perspective, and understood its position in the new American union.