| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699–2000. Ed. by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xvi, 232 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2908-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-80712923-2.)
Samuel C. Hyde Jr. has assembled a worthwhile anthology on a neglected section of Louisiana, the Florida parishes, the region east of the Mississippi River and north of Lake Pontchartrain. The area, once a part of West Florida, is unique unto itself, but in many ways it resembles the Anglo-Saxon northern half of Louisiana more than it does the Latin- inclined southeastern section of the state. The Florida parishes, for instance, experienced a heavy influx of American settlers in a place that featured French and Spanish domination before statehood. They also enjoyed a deserved reputation for violence. The eclectic essays in this volume trace the history of the region from the colonial era to the recent past.	1
Hyde divides the book into three sections, one on the colonial era, a second on the nineteenth century, and a third on the twentieth century. After Hyde's useful introduction, Charles N. Elliott presents an absorbing essay on geopolitics and Indian alliances on the southeastern Louisiana frontier. Robin F. A. Fabel examines land speculation in the region during a brief period of British rule. Gilbert C. Din distills from his larger work on slavery in Spanish Louisiana a discussion of the peculiar institution in the Florida parishes.	. . .

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