| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities. By Joseph G. Tregle Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xiv, 369 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-8071-2292-0.)

Joseph G. Tregle Jr.'s 1954 dissertation on Louisiana political history between 1820 and 1834 remains, almost a half century later, the definitive treatment of its subject. Stylistically, it may never be surpassed. Thus its revision for publication as a monograph is welcome, indeed long overdue. The first six chapters survey Louisiana's varied geography, describe the linguistic, ethnic, and racial heterogeneity of its early-nineteenth-century population, situate the state still at the frontier stage of development with a corresponding pervasive egoistic and acquisitive mentality, analyze the institutions and electoral procedures established by the state constitution of 1812, provide vivid biographical sketches of the major political leaders, and demonstrate the acute ethnic discord between Gallic and American elements of the white population. The second half of the book is a narrative of national and local electoral battles in Louisiana in the Jacksonian era based primarily on coverage in newspapers and on manuscript collections of papers of political actors. . . .

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