Books published by Louisiana State University Press

Examines the political economy surrounding the use of enslaved labourers in Spanish imperial Cuba from 1762 to 1835. Evelyn Jennings demonstrates that the Spanish state's policies and practices in the ownership and employment of enslaved workers after 1762 served as a bridge from an economy based on imperial service to a plantation economy.

Analyses the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the US South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Julia Nitz finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novels, especially works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets.

In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute.

Analyses war movies for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape US national identity. The volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition.

Delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Robert Paul Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies.