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Founding of New Acadia
The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803
Häftad, 1997
299 kr
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In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their …
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma
A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
Häftad, 2021
343 kr
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In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, …
Acadian to Cajun
Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
Häftad, 1992
283 kr
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This book is the first to examine comprehensively the demographic growth, cultural evolution, and political involvement of Louisiana's large Acadian community between the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), when the transplanted culture began to take on a decidedly Louisiana character, and 1877, …
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
Av Carl A. Brasseaux, Claude F. Oubre m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
400 kr
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Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant …
Ain't There No More
Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain
Av Carl A. Brasseaux, Donald W. Davis
Inbunden, 2017
358 kr
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For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands …
Asian-Cajun Fusion
Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou
Av Carl A. Brasseaux, Donald W. Davis
Inbunden, 2022
411 kr
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Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou provides insightful analysis of this paradox and a detailed, thorough history of the industry in …
Road to Louisiana
The Saint-Domingue Refugees 1792-1809
Av Carl a Brasseaux, Glenn R Conrad
Häftad, 2016
194 kr
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Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous
A History and Directory
Av Carl A. Brasseaux, Keith P. Fontenot
Inbunden, 2004
663 kr
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In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou steamboat journeys of the mid to late nineteenth century. The bayou country's steamboat saga mirrors …
Acadiana
Louisiana's Historic Cajun Country
Inbunden, 2011
528 kr
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Acadiana"" summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine. The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles, this twenty-two-parish area of south Louisiana encompasses a broad range of people, places, and …
Ruined by This Miserable War
The Dispatches of Charles Prosper Fauconnet, a French Diplomat in New Orleans, 1863–1868
Av Carl A. Brasseaux, Katherine Carmines Mooney
Inbunden, 2013
454 kr
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In March 1863, after Northern general Benjamin F. Butler demanded the recall of the French consul-general, an unabashed Confederate sympathiser, from Union-occupied New Orleans, Charles Prosper Fauconnet assumed the duties of acting consul. A seasoned diplomat who had risen slowly through the ranks …
