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Avoyelles

Author : Eakin, Sue L.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455600519
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Avoyelles written by Eakin, Sue L. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parish has a rich history begun by people of many different descents--French, Spanish, English, Scotch-Irish, German, Italian, and Jewish--coming together in mutual respect and peace, but not without the ups and downs that come with the human condition. The books takes the reader on six tours through Avoyelles, from the towns of Marksville and Cocoville to Lake Pearl and Cottonport, giving the reader a penned as well as pictorial background of life in the parish as well as the culture that still thrives within them. Members of the executive board of La Commission des Avoyelles have combed the sections of their parish to bring forth the written and oral history and every old picture that could be found. Brought together in a masterful collection, the pieces document Avoyelles parish, its beginning, its development, and its present.

Avoyelles Parish-- Crossroads of Louisiana where All Cultures Meet

Author : Sue L. Eakin
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780865180215
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Avoyelles Parish-- Crossroads of Louisiana where All Cultures Meet written by Sue L. Eakin and published by Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following volumes discuss the history of a number of Louisiana parishes from Indian territory to colonization under three different flags (French, Spanish, and British) to their emergence into the modern era.

Bibliographic Guide to North American History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acadiana

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807139645
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Acadiana written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two hundred color photographs of architecture, landscapes, wildlife, and artifacts, Gould portrays the rich history still visible in the area, while Brasseaux's engagingly written narrative covers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century story of settlement and development in the region. Brasseaux brings the story up to date, recounting devastating hurricanes and coastal degradation. From living-history attractions such as Vermilionville, the Acadian Village, and Longfellow-Evangeline State Park to music venues, festivals, and crawfish boils, Acadiana depicts a resilient and vibrant way of life and presents a vivid portrait of a culture that continues to captivate, charm, and endure.

A Question of Inheritance

Author : James G. Dauphine
Publisher : University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Inheritance written by James G. Dauphine and published by University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social dichotomy in Louisiana between Protestantism and Catholicism, already statistically apparent by religious census data in 1890, remained apparent into the twentieth century. By 1936, the date of the United States government's fifth and last religious census, North and South Louisiana had become more firmly differentiated by religious affiliation than in 1890, when the first government religious census was taken. From the beginning of Louisiana's settlement by different ethnic and national populations, religion was the primary social institution that reinforced ethnic, linguistic, economic, and other differences of custom, allowing cultural identities, once formed, to persist even once other cultural boundary-maintaining mechanisms weakened or disappeared. Louisiana's cultural dichotomy perpetuated itself throughout the period of rapid social change between Reconstruction and World War II, largely through the survival of different cultural identities associated with Catholicism and with evangelical Protestantism. During the twentieth century, Catholics and Protestants alike used Louisiana's developing public school system not only to maintain and strengthen their own influence in those geographic areas where they were dominant, but they also used public education to help preserve the cultural boundary between the northern and southern sections of the Pelican State. A Question of Inheritance is the most important study to date of the deep and enduring cultural and religious differences between North and South Louisiana.

Louisiana History

Author : Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076790
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana History written by Florence M. Jumonville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

American Book Publishing Record

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1886 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louisiana Voyages

Author : Martha Reinhard Smallwood Field
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1578068258
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Voyages written by Martha Reinhard Smallwood Field and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Toward the end of the 19th century, journalist Field traveled by boat and buggy around Louisiana, writing columns under the name of Catharine Cole for the New Orleans Daily Picayune. Her work spread to other papers, and she was read widely throughout the South. This collection details her journeys around the state in the 1890s. With evocative and adjective-filled prose, she describes the beauty as well as the practical aspects of Louisiana life, including shrimp drying, levee building, and the cost of land. Field conjures up vivid images of the places she visits, such as the town that "lifts its comb of roof and gray gable and soft-colored adobe chimneys from out the clumps and clouds of the chinaberry tree." The editors, both retired professors of English at Clemson University, add brief introductions to each piece. Although Field's travel adventures depict a time without modern convenience, when women were not expected to journey alone, her enjoyment of travel for its own sake resonates with readers today. Recommended for Louisiana libraries and for academic libraries with a Southern history collection.-Janet Clapp, Athens-Clarke Cty. Lib., Athens, GA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information." --Library Jour.

Ain't There No More

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809513
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Ain't There No More written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library Association 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 survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of modern coastal communities throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult lifestyle choices. Along the Bayou State's coast the most insidious challenges are man-made. Since channelization of the Mississippi River in the wake of the 1927 flood, which diverted sediments and nutrients from the wetlands, coastal Louisiana has lost to erosion, subsidence, and rising sea levels a land mass roughly twice the size of Connecticut. State and national policymakers were unable to reverse this environmental catastrophe until Hurricane Katrina focused a harsh spotlight on the human consequences of eight decades of neglect. Yet, even today, the welfare of Louisiana's coastal plain residents remains, at best, an afterthought in state and national policy discussions. For coastal families, the Gulf water lapping at the doorstep makes this morass by no means a scholarly debate over abstract problems. Ain't There No More renders an easily read history filled with new insights and possibilities. Rare, previously unpublished images documenting a disappearing way of life accompany the narrative. The authors bring nearly a century of combined experience to distilling research and telling this story in a way invaluable to Louisianans, to policymakers, and to all those concerned with rising sea levels and seeking a long-term solution.

Louisiana Almanac, 1997-98

Author : Milburn Calhoun
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565542433
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Almanac, 1997-98 written by Milburn Calhoun and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for its politics, its natural resources, and its colorful history, the Pelican State is one of the most interesting states in America. For more than forty-five years, Louisiana Almanac has been the authoritative guide to a million facts about Louisiana; and this painstakingly updated fifteenth edition consists of hundreds of useful pages of information for ready reference. The wealth of maps, charts, tables, and graphs make the data and statistics easily accessible, as well. No Louisiana business, classroom, or library should be without a current copy.

LLA Bulletin

Author : Louisiana Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book LLA Bulletin written by Louisiana Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louisiana Architecture, 1820-1840

Author : Fred Daspit
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Architecture, 1820-1840 written by Fred Daspit and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines architectural structures throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and several French settlements in the Upper Mississippi Valley.

Louisiana Architecture, 1714-1820

Author : Fred Daspit
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Architecture, 1714-1820 written by Fred Daspit and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines architectural structures throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and several French settlements in the Upper Mississippi Valley.

Louisiana Architecture, 1714-1830

Author : Fred Daspit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Architecture, 1714-1830 written by Fred Daspit and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louisiana Place Names

Author : Clare D’Artois Leeper
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147400
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Place Names written by Clare D’Artois Leeper and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D'Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state's history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an entertaining guide to Louisiana's place name lore. Leeper considers the origins of each place as well as each name, drawing attention to the individuals who transformed Louisiana from an uninhabited wilderness into a populated state. Not surprising for a region that has existed under ten flags, Louisiana's place names reflect a mixture of several languages and point to other locales across the country and around the world. Even the state's name, Leeper points out, combines the French Louis and the Spanish iana, meaning "belonging to" Louis XIV. Name origins trace back to geography, flora, fauna, religion, weather, people, and occasionally, a flood, a favorite book, or a popular local dish. Leeper conducted numerous interviews, visited courthouses, museums, and libraries, and more recently made use of the Geographic Names Information System to create this fascinating collection of Louisiana history and folklore.

Avoyelles Parish

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789997792273
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Avoyelles Parish written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana

Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496847342
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana written by Keagan LeJeune and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana’s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author’s own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it’s also a search for LeJeune’s own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana’s geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home.