Henry Alexander Wiencek

Oil Cities

The Making of North Louisiana's Boomtowns, 1901-1930

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477329177
• ISBN-10: 147732917X
• Artikelnr.: 68935962

Autorenporträt

Henry Alexander Wiencek

Inhaltsangabe

A Note to Readers
Prologue: The Savage-Morrical No. 1
1. The Boom
2. The Communities
3. The People
4. The Racial Violence of “Bloody Caddo”
5. The Courts of Bloody Caddo
6. The Land
7. The City
Epilogue: The Bust
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index