Pistols and Politics
Subtitle: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jun 16, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780807169278
Description: "In the nineteenth-century South, there existed numerous local pockets where cultures and values different from those of the dominant planter class prevailed. One such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions combined to create an enclave of white yeomen. In the years after the Civil War, levels of violence among these men escalated to create a state of chronic anarchy, producing an enduring legacy of bitterness and suspicion. In Samuel C. Hyde's careful and original study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos, he illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph"--
Notes: Source title: Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935