Lsu Press: 854 books
Dangerous Hoops
A Forensic Marketing Action Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Part crime novel, part textbook, Dangerous Hoops combines the principles of marketing and forensic accounting into a lively narrative to educate and entertain.
Set in the world of professional sports, Dangerous Hoops introduces FBI agent Bill Douglass as he pursues a deadly extortionist in order to...
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Race and Class in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity.
In...
Delta Empire
Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II.
After his father's...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975
Public Market Halls, Social Networks, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The food markets of Barcelona host thousands of customers daily, from tourists eager to sample fresh fruits and grilled seafood to neighborhood cooks in search of high-quality ingredients. While other countries experienced major shifts away from the public-market model in the twentieth century, Barcelona's...
The Holiday Makers
Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In mid-twentieth-century America, mass tourism became emblematic of the expanding horizons associated with an affluent, industrial society. Nowhere was the image of leisurely travel more visible than in the parade of glossy articles and advertisements that beckoned readers from the pages of popular...
Remembering Reconstruction
Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar...
Black Americans and Organized Labor
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity:...
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new." -- Charles B. Dew, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The tradition in international relations theory known as realism has often been associated with the Cold War. The contributors to this intriguing volume argue, however, that realism remains a profound and relevant perspective on contemporary international politics. They point out that classical realism...
Planting a Capitalist South
Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790--1860
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a pathbreaking book, well grounded in the appropriate documentary record. Downey makes especially good use of the reports of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company and of other corporations, which are so tedious to read, to offer an exciting and fresh perspective on an old problem...
Tapping the Pines
The Naval Stores Industry in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine -- along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin -- constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production....
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia
The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Far more than a documentation of the horrors and banality of the Civil War, John Preston Sheffey's literate and witty writings demonstrate his ardor for battle, his love of Virginia, and his passion in waging a most arduous and suspenseful campaign: to win Josephine Spiller as his wife. Superbly edited...
Securing the Fruits of Labor
The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765–1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In his comprehensive study of the economic ideology of the early republic, James L. Huston argues that Americans developed economic attitudes during the Revolutionary period that remained virtually unchanged until the close of the nineteenth century. Viewing Europe's aristocratic system, early Americans...