Download or read book The Louisiana Civilian Experience written by Vernon V. Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana written by Vernon Valentine Palmer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from the original French into English. Those officials, however, did not reveal who received the commission, and the translators never identified themselves. Indeed, the “translators of 1808” guarded their secret so well that their identities have remained unknown for more than two hundred years. Their names, personalities, careers, and credentials, indeed everything about them, have been a missing chapter in Louisiana legal history. In this volume, Vernon Valentine Palmer, through painstaking research, uncovers the identity of the translators, presents their life stories, and evaluates their translation in the context of the birth of civil law in Louisiana. One consequence of the translators' previous anonymity has been that the translation itself has never been fully examined before this study. To be sure, the translation has been criticized and specific errors have been pointed out, but Palmer's study is the first general evaluation that considers the translation's goals, the Louisiana context, its merits and demerits, its innovations, failures, and successes. It thus allows us to understand how much and in what ways the translators affected the future course of Louisiana law. The Lost Translators, through painstaking research, uncovers the identity of the translators, presents their life stories, and evaluates their translation in the context of the birth of civil law in Louisiana.
Download or read book Civilian life in occupied New Orleans 1862 65 written by Elizabeth Joan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a study of what happened to the civilian population of one of America's largest cities in a situation experienced by no other urban community in the nation: its occupation for a period of years by an enemy military force. New Orleans was occupied by Federal troops on May 1, 1862. They were not finally withdrawn until 1877, but this study is concerned only with the war years of the occupation. In it, every important phase of civilian life-- from the daily struggle for the necessities of life to the mental attitude of the population-- is examined. Necessarily, it is also a study of the techniques of occupation worked out by the United States forces to fit a situation almost unknown to American military authorities. Material for the study was drawn from three types of sources: published secondary works, biographies, and memoirs; printed government documents and newspapers; and manuscripts"--Page iv.
Download or read book Civilian Life in Occupied New Orleans 1862 1865 written by Elizabeth Joan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Codes Darkly written by Vernon V. Palmer and published by Lawbook Exchange, Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A path-breaking and masterly study of Louisiana slave law, this fascinating study offers an examination of the complex French, Spanish, Roman and American heritage of Louisiana's law of slavery and its codification, a profile of the first effort in modern history to integrate slavery into a European-style civil code, the 1808 Digest of Orleans, a trailblazing study of the unwritten laws of slavery and the legal impact of customs and practices developing outside of the Codes, an analysis that overturns the previous scholarly view that Roman law was the model for the Code Noir of 1685, a new unabridged translation (by Palmer) of the Code Noir of 1724 with the original French text on facing pages. "A very useful addition to the growing literature on the law of slavery, this book is particularly important in helping understand the complexity of the Louisiana Code Noir and its impact on American slave law. Palmer's discussion of how the Code came to be written will surprise and educate those who read this book. " --Paul Finkelman, John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History Duke University School of Law and President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School "When it comes to demystifying slave law in Louisiana, Vernon Palmer is practically peerless. It's probably because he is equally comfortable in the weeds of lived experience as he is poring over the pages of classical learning. These masterful essays on the Code Noir's origins, plus Louisiana's 150-year interplay between custom and legal practice, belong on the shelf of anyone with the faintest curiosity about human bondage and the laws fashioned to make it work." --Lawrence N. Powell, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Tulane University "Slavery remains a current social and political problem, and Vernon Palmer s brilliant work illuminates its history, showing its legal and social complexity through a study primarily of Louisiana, where slavery was included in the first civil codes. Beautifully written, humane and insightful, this monograph will promote reflection on the fascinating legal history of Louisiana as well as on the famous Tannenbaum thesis." --John W. Cairns, FRSE, Chair of Legal History, University of Edinburgh "Palmer has written a path-breaking and splendid account of how Louisianians, newly under American rule, wrote the first modern codes that incorporated slavery in a systematic way into their civil law. Until now, ignored by scholars, these codifications moved slavery from the edges of the legal system to the very center stage in Louisiana courtrooms. The redactors of these codes implanted provisions about slavery into the law of persons, property, successions, sales and prescription, producing a unique Atlantic World slave law of incomparable richness and complexity unseen in other legal systems." --Judith Kelleher Schafer author of Slavery, the Civil Law and the Supreme Court of Louisiana and Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862
Download or read book Lee s Tigers written by Jones, Terry L. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African American Experience in Louisiana From Africa to the Civil War written by Charles Vincent and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1999 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African American Experience in Louisiana From the Civil War to Jim Crow written by Charles Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African American Experience in Louisiana From Jim Crow to civil rights written by Charles Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays recount the many changes which have occurred in black life in Louisiana during the last fifty years, especially in the political and educational arenas, but they also point to persistent problems which can only be addressed by a forward-thinking united leadership.
Download or read book Louisiana in the Civil War written by Terry L. Jones and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the beginning of the American Civil War. It also marked the beginning of a monthly column by historian Terry L. Jones. This book is a compilation of his fascinating articles describing war-related events between April 1861 and May 1865. Louisiana's role in the war was critical. It provided sixty-five thousand soldiers to the Confederacy and about half that many to the Union, including nearly twenty-four thousand African Americans, some of whom formed the first sanctioned black regiment in the U.S. Army. Many prominent participants of the war hailed from Louisiana. The state also was the scene of approximately six hundred battles and skirmishes. Among them were some of the war's most crucial engagements that secured the Mississippi River for the Union. Jones writes for the general reader, covering a wide assortment of interests, from Civil War trivia to biographical sketches, battle scenarios, African American history, politics, and the home front. Vibrant and engrossing, this book is certain to surprise you while fostering an appreciation of Louisiana's participation in this key chapter of the nation's history.
Download or read book Everyday Life of a Louisiana Soldier in the Civil War written by Esther Adele Nash Ethridge and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana during World War II written by Jerry Purvis Sanson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the impact of World War II on America and other countries has been exhaustively chronicled, few historians have investigated the experiences of individual states during the tumultuous war years. In his study of Louisiana’s home front from 1939 to 1945, Jerry Purvis Sanson examines changes in politics, education, agriculture, industry, and society that forever altered the Pelican State. The war era was a particularly important time in Louisiana’s colorful political history. The gubernatorial victories of prominent anti–Huey Long candidates Sam Jones in 1940 and Jimmie Davis in 1944 reflected shifting sentiments toward politicians and heralded a changing of the guard in the statehouse. This created a system of active dual-faction politics that continued for the next decade. The war also transformed the state’s economy: agricultural mechanization accelerated to compensate for labor shortages, and industries increased production to meet military demands. Louisiana’s educational system modified its curriculum in response to the war, providing technical training and sponsoring scrap-metal collections and war-stamp sales drives. Sanson explores the war’s effect on the everyday lives of Louisianians, showing how their actions at home provided them with a sense of personal participation in the titanic effort against the Axis powers. He also points out that, while many found their lives limited by war, two groups—African Americans and women— experienced increased opportunities as they moved from low-paying jobs to more lucrative positions vacated by white males who had departed for the service. Now condensed for easy and efficient access, Sanson’s historical account provides a wide-ranging yet intimate look at how the war was brought home to the people of the Bayou State.
Download or read book The Civil War in Louisiana The Home front written by Arthur W. Bergeron and published by Louisiana Purchase Bicentennia. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the disparate loyalties and experiences of the peoples of Louisiana during the Civil War.
Download or read book Louisiana written by Bennett H. Wall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state. Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveries Includes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill Considers the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a whole Written in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps
Download or read book An Absolute Massacre written by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots rang out, and within minutes a riot erupted with unrestrained fury. When it was over, at least forty-eight men—an overwhelming majority of them black—lay dead and more than two hundred had been wounded. In An Absolute Massacre, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., examines the events surrounding the confrontation and offers a compelling look at the racial tinderbox that was the post-Civil War South.
Download or read book Scarred by War written by Christopher G. Peña and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excluding the capture of New Orleans, the military affairs in southeast Louisiana during the American Civil War have long been viewed by scholars and historians has having no strategic importance during the war. As such, no such serious effort to chronicle the war in that portion of the state has been attempted, except Peas earlier book, Touched By War: Battles Fought in the Lafourche District (1998). That book covered the military affairs in southeast Louisiana that led to the five major battles fought in that region between fall 1862 and summer 1863. Beyond that point, little is chronicled, until now. In this thoroughly researched and authoritative book, Scarred By War: Civil War in Southeast Louisiana, Christopher Pea has revised and updated his earlier work and expanded the scope to include a study of the remaining two years of the war, a period filled with intense Confederate guerilla warfare. The literary result is a book that recounts the political, social, military, and economic aspects of the war as they played out in southeast Louisianas bayou country.
Download or read book An Uncommon Experience written by Judith Kelleher Schafer and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1997 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the resulting mixed jurisprudence that is similar, but also different from that of other Southern states or the nation.
