The Cat and St. Landry
Author : Mary Alice Fontenot
Publisher : Claitor's Pub Division
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875116839
Author : Mary Alice Fontenot
Publisher : Claitor's Pub Division
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875116839
Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1604734965
The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, "Cajun" became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the advent of a new information age launched "Cyber-Cajuns" onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it. A Cajun himself, the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.
Author : Robert M. Overstreet
Publisher : House of Collectibles
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Arrowheads
ISBN : 0375723129
Price guide to Indian arrowheads. Offers the actual-size, pictures, giving collectors an enormous advantage in identifying and valuing their arrowheads.
Author : Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313076790
From the accounts of 18th-century travelers to the interpretations of 21st-century historians, Jumonville lists more than 6,800 books, chapters, articles, theses, dissertations, and government documents that describe the rich history of America's 18th state. Here are references to sources on the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, Carnival, and Cajuns. Less-explored topics such as the rebellion of 1768, the changing roles of women, and civic development are also covered. It is a sweeping guide to the publications that best illuminate the land, the people, and the multifaceted history of the Pelican State. Arranged according to discipline and time period, chapters cover such topics as the environment, the Civil War and Reconstruction, social and cultural history, the people of Louisiana, local, parish, and sectional histories, and New Orleans. It also lists major historical sites and repositories of primary materials. As the only comprehensive bibliography of the secondary sources about the state, ^ILouisiana History^R is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers.
Author : Adam Fairclough
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820331140
From the foundation of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP in 1915 to the beginning of Edwin Edwards' first term as governor in 1972, this is a wide-ranging study of the civil rights struggle in Louisiana. This edition contains a new preface which brings the narrative up-to-date, including coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
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Page : 780 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
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Author : Louisiana. Oyster Commission
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Oyster culture
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
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Category : Air-pilot guides
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Page : 2224 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Delegated legislation
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
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