
Pistols and Politics
Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1935
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Pistols and Politics
Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1935
About this book
In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana's 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- 1 • A Brief Moment of Stability
- 2 • Government Far Behind the Times: The Seeds of Chaos
- 3 • An Education in Violence
- 4 • Opportunity Lost: Incipient Chaos Delayed
- 5 • Organized Lawlessness: Chaos Ascendant
- 6 • War Without Honor: Chaos Ensconced
- 7 • Adjusting to a New Millennium: Continuity Amid Change
- 8 • A Pathway to Peace
- 9 • A Peculiar Society Defines Itself: Equilibrium
- Epilogue: Securing a Credible Commitment for Change
- Bibliography
- Index