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Canada and the United States

Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1899. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1996. Pp. xv, 288. $34.95.

The violent feuding that plagued the Louisiana parishes north of New Orleans in the 1890s first captured Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.'s attention, but searching for the roots of that violence drew him back through almost the entire nineteenth century. Hyde's exploration revealed a persistent pattern of tension and mistrust between plain folk and planters shaped, in large part, by the geographic division of the "Florida" parishes into eastern piney-wood regions and western plantation districts along the Mississippi River. During the antebellum period, the economic and political power of the planter elite muted overt expressions of that tension, but that dominance unraveled in the wake of the Civil War. The planter elite were never able to regain the allegiance of the common folk after Reconstruction, leading to political disorder. Hyde argues that the deadly feuding of the late nineteenth century was the natural outcome of a "society long repressed and suddenly unfettered" (p. 15). This book is a carefully researched investigation into the dissolution of political control wrought by the upheaval of war and Reconstruction. . . .

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