The Spanish Presence in Louisiana, 1763-1803
Volume II of the Louisiana Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History
Gilbert C. Din (editor)
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BOOK SUMMARY
The global impact of Spanish governance on Louisiana government, law, immigration, religion, slavery, arts and culture.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
The purpose of The Spanish Presence in Louisiana, 1763-1803, is to present a representative sampling of the better research on Spanish Louisiana published during the last half century. The readings vary widely from diplomacy, governors, administration and law, economics, war, immigration, Indians, slavery, the Catholic Church, to the arts and entertainment.
The diplomacy section examines the forces that drove France to part with Louisiana and Spain to accept it, and ultimately to relinquish it to French control. Essays in the governors section explores the Louisiana careers of Antonio de Ulloa, Alejandro O'Reilly, Bernardo de Galvez, and Manual Gayoso de Lemos. The administration and law section investigates Louisiana's integration into the Spanish empire. The economics section analyzes Louisiana's rapid agricultural and commercial development in the late eighteenth century. Essays in the war section recount the Spanish conquest of British West Florida during the American Revolution. The Native Americans and immigration section describes how Spain attempted to forge Indian alliances through the use of trade goods. In addition, as a means of both populating the colony and promoting stability, the Spanish regime subsidized the immigration of Acadians, Canary Islanders, and Malaguenos, as well as monarchists and Catholics from both sides of the Atlantic. The slavery and free Africans section examines the festering problem of Indian slavery in Spanish Louisiana, the introduction of Spanish slave laws, the roll played by free persons of color in the colonial militia, and the contributions of free Africans to New Orleans's economy. The arts and entertainment section provides insight into Spanish cultural life in late eighteenth-century Louisiana. The final section on religion investigates Catholic church policies and the contributions of various religious leaders in Spanish Louisiana.
The essays collectively provide readers with the most comprehensive view available regarding Louisiana in the late eighteenth century, a period which did much to chart the course of the state's demographic, economic, and cultural development.
BOOK EXCERPTS
CONTENTS
PART I DIPLOMACY
The Diplomacy of the Louisiana Cession
by Arthur S. Aiton
Pinckney's Treaty: America's Advantage From Europe's Distress, 1783-1800
by Samuel Flagg Bemis
The Retrocession of Louisiana in Spanish Policy
by Arthur P. Whitaker
PART II SPANISH GOVERNORS OF LOUISIANA
'The Good Wine of Bordeaux': Antonio de Ulloa
by John Preston Moore
Alejandro O'Reilly in Louisiana
by Lawrence Kinnaird
Bernardo de Galvez: A Reexamination of His Governorship
by Gilbert C. Din
The Provincial Governor-General: Manuel Gayoso de Lemos
by Jack D. L. Holmes
PART III ADMINISTRATION AND LAW
The Administrative System in the Floridas, 1781-182.
by Duvon Clough Corbitt
Government, Law, and Politics
by Morris S. Arnold
The Offices and Functions of the New Orleans Cabildo
by Gilbert C. Din
Do It! Don't Do It!: Spanish Laws on Sex and Marriage
by Jack D. L. Holmes
PART IV SPANISH LOUISIANA IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Observers and Spanish Involvement, 1779
by Light T. Cummins
Victory on the Mississippi, 1779
by Eric Beerman, trans. by Gilbert C. Din
The Spanish Conquest of British West Florida, 1779-1781
by Albert W. Haarmann
PART V ECONOMICS
The Commerce of Louisiana and the Floridas at the End of the Eighteenth Century
by Arthur P. Whitaker
Boom and Bust: The Rise and Fall of the Tobacco Industry in Spanish Louisiana, 1770-1790
by Brian E. Coutts
Reed and Forde: Merchant Adventurers of Philadelphia: Their Trade with Spanish
New Orleans
by Arthur P. Whitaker
Economic Life Before the Louisiana Purchase
by John G. Clark
PART VI NATIVE AMERICANS AND IMMIGRATION
Spanish Indian Policy in Louisiana: The Natchitoches District, 1763-1803
by F. Todd Smith
American Indians in Colonial New Orleans
by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
A Scheme Gone Awry: Bemardo de Galvez, Gilberto Antonio de St. Maxent, and the
Southern Indian Trade
by Thomas D. Watson
The Immigration Policy of Governor Esteban Mir6 in Spanish Louisiana
by Gilbert C. Din
Spain's Immigration Policy in Louisiana and the American Penetration, 1792-1803
by Gilbert C. Din
PART VII SLAVERY AND FREE AFRICANS
The Problem of Indian Slavery in Spanish Louisiana, 1769-1803
by Stephen Webre
The Law of Slavery in Spanish Luisiana, 1769-1803
by Hans W. Baade
A Privilege and Honor to Serve: The Free Black Militia of Spanish New Orleans
by Kimberly S. Hanger
'Almost All Have Callings:' Free Blacks at Work in Spanish New Orleans
by Kimberly S. Hanger
PART VIII ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MEDICINE
Music and Art in Spanish Colonial Louisiana
by Alfred E. Lemmon
AImonester: Philanthropist and Builder in New Orleans
by Samuel Wilson, Jr.
Spanish Regulation of Taverns and the Liquor Trade in the Mississippi Valley
by Jack D. L. Holmes
'Quadroon'Balls in the Spanish Period
by Ronald R. Morazan
The Pestilence of 1796: New Orleans' First Officially Recorded Yellow
Fever Epidemic
by Jo Ann Carrigan
PART IX THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SPANISH LOUISIANA
Spanish Louisiana: In the Service of God and His Most Catholic Majesty
by Alfred Lemmon
Church Courts, Marriage Breakdown, and Separation in Spanish Louisiana, West Florida, and Texas, 1763-1836
by Light Townsend Cummins
The Inquisition in Spanish Louisiana, 1762-1800
by Richard E. Greenleaf
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ISBN: 096084494
Copyright: 1996
Library of Congress: 1887366032
Book Publisher: Center for Louisiana Studies
Binding: Sewn
No. of Pages: 579
Booklister Web Site: Center for Louisiana Studies
