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Pistols and Politics - Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935 (Paperback)
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Pistols and Politics - Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935 (Paperback)
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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 combined 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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