The Germans of Colonial Louisiana, 1720-1803
Author : Reinhart Kondert
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : German Americans
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Author : Reinhart Kondert
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : German Americans
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Author : Reinhart Kondert
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 1990
Category : German Americans
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Author : Reinhart Kondert
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Covers D'Arensbourg's early years in Europe to his death in Louisiana.
Author : Alberrt J Robichaux
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2021-02
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ISBN : 9781598049558
The purpose of this book is to determine the places of origin of the families recruited by John Law in 1720, and to re-examine the migration within the context of Louisiana and European history. The primary focus was on those fifty-eight families enumerated at the German villages in the 1724 census. The first section re-examines the German migration to Louisiana, while the second reports the results of the genealogical research that is arranged by family groups. The third section of the book contains translations of pertinent documents and additional research on the German Stein family.
Author : Merrill, Ellen C.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1455604844
During the antebellum period, New Orleans was the largest German colony below the Mason-Dixon line. Later settlements moved upriver between New Orleans and Donaldsonville, near Lecompte, and in North Louisiana near Minden. Germans of Louisiana is the first unified published study of the influence the German people made on the state of Louisiana and its inhabitants. Beginning with the French and Spanish colonial periods and working through the post-Civil War period, this book covers the heritage those German settlers left behind.
Author : John Deiler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
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ISBN : 9781727737790
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
Author : Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1469608650
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described the 1729 Natchez Uprising, and gave account of the 1739-1740 French expedition against the Chickasaws. Dumont's adventures, as recorded in his 1747 memoir conserved at the Newberry Library, underscore the complexity of the expanding French Atlantic world, offering a singular perspective on early colonialism in Louisiana. His life story also provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of the peoples and environment of the lower Mississippi valley. This English translation of the unabridged memoir features a new introduction, maps, and a biographical dictionary to enhance the text. Dumont emerges here as an important colonial voice and brings to vivid life the French Atlantic.
Author : Edna B. Freiberg
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : John Hanno Deiler
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Creoles
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Author : David Buisseret
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441013
Creolization, the process of cultural interchange--in this case, between peoples of the continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean--is an important aspect of the American experience. Language, literature, food, dress, and social relations are all affected by the interplay of cultures. Only recently, though, have scholars fully begun to understand creolization as a mutual exchange rather than the acculturation of colonized peoples to a dominant culture. Focusing on diverse settings and different aspects of culture, five scholars here examine the process of creolization: its origins, historical and modern meanings of the term, and the various manifestations of the complex, continuing process of cultural exchange and adaptation that began when Africans, American Indians, and Europeans came into contact with each other. While the authors vary in their approaches and, in some respects, their conclusions, they essentially agree that the notion of cultural syncretism--whether described as acculturation or creolization--is a conceptual tool of crucial importance for analyzing the interchange that occurred between peoples of Europe and the Americas. Contributors to this ground-breaking volume and their respective chapters are David Buisseret, "The Process of Creolization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica"; Daniel H. Usner, Jr., "`The Facility Offered by the Country': The Creolization of Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley"; Mary L. Galvin, "Decoctions for Carolinians: The Creation of a Creole Medicine Chest in Colonial South Carolina"; Richard Cullen Rath, "Drums and Power: Ways of Creolizing Music in Coastal South Carolina and Georgia, 1730-1790"; and J. L. Dillard, "The Evidence for Pidgin Creolization in Early American English." Buisseret also contributes an introduction that places the other articles within the context of recent scholarship on creolization