Author: Gilbert C. DinPublisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Spanish Presence in Louisiana, 1763-1803
Author: Gilbert C. DinPublisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Louisiana Purchase and Its Aftermath, 1800-1830: The Spanish presence in Louisiana 1763-1803
Author: Dolores Egger LabbéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Spanish Louisiana
Author: Frances Kolb TurnbellPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807182729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Frances Kolb Turnbell’s study of Spanish colonial Louisiana is the first comprehensive history of the colony. It emphasizes the Lower Mississippi valley’s status as a borderland contested by empires and the region’s diverse inhabitants in the era of volatility that followed the Seven Years’ War. As Turnbell demonstrates, the Spanish era was characterized by tremendous transition as the colony emerged from the neglect of the French period and became slowly but increasingly centered on plantation agriculture. The transformations of this critical period grew out of the struggles between Spain and Louisiana’s colonists, enslaved people, and Indians over issues related to space and mobility. Many borderland peoples, networks, and alliances sought to preserve Louisiana as a flexible and fluid zone as the colonial government attempted to control and contain the region’s inhabitants for its own purposes through policy and efforts to secure loyalty and its own advantageous alliances. Turnbell first examines the period from 1763 through the American Revolution, when the Mississippi River was a boundary between empires. The river’s designation as an imperial border ran counter to the topography of North America and counter to the practices of the valley’s inhabitants, who employed its waterways to trade, communicate, migrate, and survive. Turnbell pays special attention to the Revolt of 1768, the burgeoning trade along the Mississippi prior to the American Revolution that involved British and American merchants, Spanish preparation for war, and the crucial involvement of the borderland’s diverse inhabitants as the war played out on the Lower Mississippi. Turnbell then explains how the activity of borderland peoples evolved after the Revolutionary War when the Lower Mississippi was no longer an imperial boundary. She considers the instability and fluidity of postwar years in Louisiana, American trade and migration, Louisiana’s experience of the Age of Revolutions—from pro-French sentiments to plans for rebellion among the enslaved—and ultimately, Spain’s political demise in the Mississippi River valley.
Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves
Author: Gilbert C. DinPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890969045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a part of Louisiana's culture during the years of Spanish rule. Gilbert C. Din challenges the idea that conditions under the Spaniards differed little from the years of French rule and examines how local culture merged with colonial government and residual laws to create a slave system unlike any other in the Deep South. Din presents many aspects of the slavery issue, including a look at the French system, conflicts between planters who favored the established system and governors who promoted the less stringent Spanish laws, and the political favoritism that sought to benefit the wealthy New Orleans district. Din also discusses the role of the Catholic Church and debates the commonly held idea that the church's influence made Spanish slavery less brutal, asserting instead that its role in most areas was insignificant and largely observational. Using government documents from archives in Spain and Louisiana, Din paints a historically accurate portrait of a time when the blended culture of the eighteenth-century colony resulted in conflict and turmoil. Most important are the Papeles Procedentes de la Isla de Cuba, a collection of colonial documents that illustrate not only the actions but also the personalities of the governors and how they implemented changes and handled problems within the slave system. Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is the first in its field to capture the years of Spanish rule as a specific and unique point in Louisiana's history of slavery. Din's research uncovers both the complexities of the slavery issue and the Spanish heritage that ultimatelyhelped to shape the slave system of the future state. It is an ideal study for anyone interested in the history of both colonial Louisiana and slavery itself.
The Spanish in New Orleans and Louisiana
Author: José Montero de Pedro (marqués de Casa Mena.)Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781565546851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With this newly translated account, the all-too-recognized French influences of Creole and Cajun culture in Louisiana and New Orleans make way for an examination of the effects of the Spanish period, which lasted from 1763-1803. In the short span of only forty years, many illustrious Spaniards, including early governors Bernardo de Galvez (1777-1782) and Bar'n de Carondelet (1792-1797), left indelible impressions on the city that reach far beyond the streets that bear their names today. An entire chapter is devoted to the Spanish founding of modern-day parishes, cities, and towns, along with the Spanish contribution to Louisiana architecture, law, and art. The renewed traces of Spain in modern New Orleans, Baton Rouge, St. Bernard, and New Iberia are explored as well. Originally published in Spain in 1979, the author intended his book for the people of both Spain and the United States. For the citizens of New Orleans, de Pedro considered it time for the Spanish influence in and on New Orleans finally to be recognized, without delay or prejudice and for the sake of truth.
History of Louisiana
Author: Charles GayarrePublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781565547490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The author of this comprehensive history was the first Louisianahistorian to document his studies through research in the nationalarchives of France and Spain. Originally published in1854, this volumecovers the Spanish rule in Louisiana from 1769 to 1803. Read about thedifficult conversion of a French colony into a Spanish one, and about themen who ruled from the Cabildo, which still stands in New OrleansFrench Quarter.Discover what took place during the administration of each Spanishgovernor. While reading, enjoy maps of Louisiana as it was at the timecovered. The exciting events will inspire readers to continue the story byreading Volume IV.
Proposals for a French Company for Spanish Louisiana, 1763-1764
Author: Allan ChristelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States, 1785-1807
Author: James Alexander RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Spanish in New Orleans and Louisiana
Author: de Pedro, Marqués de Casa Mena, José MonteroPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455612277
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Louisiana Purchase
Author: Thomas FlemingPublisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0471484407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From The Louisiana Purchase Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity. . . . Thomas Jefferson would have been less than human had he not claimed a major share of the credit. In a private letter . . . the president, reviving a favorite metaphor, said he "very early saw" Louisiana was a "speck" that could turn into a "tornado." He added that the public never knew how near "this catastrophe was." But he decided to calm the hotheads of the west and "endure" Napoleon's aggression, betting that a war with England would force Bonaparte to sell. This policy "saved us from the storm." Omitted almost entirely from this account is the melodrama of the purchase, so crowded with "what ifs" that might have changed the outcome-and the history of the world. The reports of the Lewis and Clark expedition . . . electrified the nation with their descriptions of a region of broad rivers and rich soil, of immense herds of buffalo and other game, of grassy prairies seemingly as illimitable as the ocean. . . . From the Louisiana Purchase would come, in future decades, the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and large portions of what is now North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Colorado, and Louisiana. For the immediate future, the purchase, by doubling the size of the United States, transformed it from a minor to a major world power. The emboldened Americans soon absorbed West and East Florida and fought mighty England to a bloody stalemate in the War of 1812. Looking westward, the orators of the 1840s who preached the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to preside from sea to shining sea based their oratorical logic on the Louisiana Purchase. TURNING POINTS features preeminent writers offering fresh, personal perspectives on the defining events of our time.
