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The House That Sugarcane Built

Author : Donna McGee Onebane
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741743
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The House That Sugarcane Built written by Donna McGee Onebane and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguières Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present. When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began. Seen through the lens of one family, this book traces the Burguières from seventeenth-century France, to nineteenth- century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is also a rich portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so does the story of their family-owned sugar business, the J. M. Burguières Company, as it plays a pivotal role in the expansion of the sugar industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba. The French Burguières were visionaries who knew the value of land and its bountiful resources. The fertile soil along the bayous and wetlands of south Louisiana bestowed on them an abundance of sugarcane above its surface, and salt, oil, and gas beneath. Ever in pursuit of land, the Burguières expanded their holdings to include the vast swamps of the Florida Everglades; then, in 2004, they turned their sights to cattle ranches on the great frontier of west Texas. Finally, integral to the story are the complex dynamics and tensions inherent in this family-owned company, revealing both failures and victories in its history of more than 135 years. The J. M. Burguières Company’s survival has depended upon each generation safeguarding and nourishing a legacy for the next.

The House that Sugar Built

Author : Donna Brewster
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781872350721
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The House that Sugar Built written by Donna Brewster and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne

Author : Christopher Everette Cenac
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811100
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne written by Christopher Everette Cenac and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2017 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award This book represents the first time that the known history and a significant amount of new information has been compiled into a single written record about one of the most important eras in the south-central coastal bayou parish of Terrebonne. The book makes clear the unique geographical, topographical, and sociological conditions that beckoned the first settlers who developed the large estates that became sugar plantations. This first of four planned volumes chronicles details about founders and their estates along Bayou Terrebonne from its headwaters in the northern civil parish to its most southerly reaches near the Gulf of Mexico. Those and other parish plantations along important waterways contributed significantly to the dominance of King Sugar in Louisiana. The rich soils and opportunities of the area became the overriding reason many well-heeled Anglo-Americans moved there to join Francophone locals in cultivating the crop. From that nineteenth century period up to the twentieth century’s side effects of World Wars I and II, Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume I: Bayou Terrebonne describes important yet widely unrecognized geography and history. Today, cultural and physical legacies such as ex-slave-founded communities and place names endure from the time that the planter society was the driving economic force of this fascinating region.

Monthly Labor Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monthly Labor Review

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Sugar in the Blood

Author : Andrea Stuart
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307272834
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Sugar in the Blood written by Andrea Stuart and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.

Educating the Sons of Sugar

Author : R. Eric Platt
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319662
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Educating the Sons of Sugar written by R. Eric Platt and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite The education of individual planter classes—cotton, tobacco, sugar—is rarely treated in works of southern history. Of the existing literature, higher education is typically relegated to a footnote, providing only brief glimpses into a complex instructional regime responsive to wealthy planters. R. Eric Platt’s Educating the Sons of Sugar allows for a greater focus on the mindset of French Creole sugar planters and provides a comprehensive record and analysis of a private college supported by planter wealth. Jefferson College was founded in St. James Parish in 1831, surrounded by slave-holding plantations and their cash crop, sugar cane. Creole planters (regionally known as the “ancienne population”) designed the college to impart a “genteel” liberal arts education through instruction, architecture, and geographic location. Jefferson College played host to social class rivalries (Creole, Anglo-American, and French immigrant), mirrored the revival of Catholicism in a region typified by secular mores, was subject to the “Americanization” of south Louisiana higher education, and reflected the ancienne population’s decline as Louisiana’s ruling population. Resulting from loss of funds, the college closed in 1848. It opened and closed three more times under varying administrations (French immigrant, private sugar planter, and Catholic/Marist) before its final closure in 1927 due to educational competition, curricular intransigence, and the 1927 Mississippi River flood. In 1931, the campus was purchased by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and reopened as a silent religious retreat. It continues to function to this day as the Manresa House of Retreats. While in existence, Jefferson College was a social thermometer for the white French Creole sugar planter ethos that instilled the “sons of sugar” with a cultural heritage resonant of a region typified by the management of plantations, slavery, and the production of sugar.

Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana

Author : Camille Lebrun
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496836405
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana written by Camille Lebrun and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805–1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult readership of the time. Lebrun’s novel is one of the few perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France’s former Louisiana colony. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geography, culture, and history of the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase, the novel tells the tale of two teenaged, orphaned Americans, Hortense Melvil and Valentine Arnold. The two young women, who characterize one another as “sisters,” have spent the majority of their lives in a Parisian boarding school and return to Louisiana to begin their adult lives. Almost immediately upon arrival in New Orleans, their close friendship faces existential threats: grave illness in the form of yellow fever, the prospect of marriage separating the two, and powerful discrimination in the form of racial prejudice and segregation.

The Thibodaux Massacre

Author : John DeSantis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439658676
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The Thibodaux Massacre written by John DeSantis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violence erupted due to strikes on Louisiana sugar cane plantations. Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action to create an epic tragedy. A future member of the U.S. House of Representatives was among the leaders of a mob that routed black men from houses and forced them to a stretch of railroad track, ordering them to run for their lives before gunning them down. According to a witness, the guns firing in the black neighborhoods sounded like a battle. Author and award-winning reporter John DeSantis uses correspondence, interviews and federal records to detail this harrowing true story.

"Mama"

Author : udith D. Christensen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463417500
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book "Mama" written by udith D. Christensen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judi, born Judith Diane Gunderson to Phillip and Shirley Gunderson in Corona, California, March 25th, 1952 is a first time author, writes a lot of small stories and keeps other journals. She resides in Corona with her husband Chris of 40 years, her dog Andy of one year and her cat Mollysue of ten years. She is Acolyte coordinator, sings with the choir and plays hand bells at the Corona United Methodist Church where she has been going since she was registered there on the 'Cradle Roll" She loves train travel.

Southdown Plantation - the House That Sugar Built

Author : Rachel E. Cherry
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507633854
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Southdown Plantation - the House That Sugar Built written by Rachel E. Cherry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Minor family of Southdown Plantation in Terrebonne Parish show the trials and tribulations of settling the largely unoccupied lands of south Louisiana suffered by many weathly land owners. Slavery, Civil War, Yellow Fever and politics were just a few of the elements that are highlighted from the beginning of the plantation and sugar refinery until its final closure in 1978. The pink and green manor house, the slave quarters and worker's cabin on the grounds of Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum stand testiment to the strenghts of the people in the Louisiana. This book is a supplement to the daily tours and activities that take place at this grand 10,000 square foot manor on the banks of Little Bayou Black in Houma, Louisiana. The Terrebonne Historical and Cultural Society maintains the property as a legacy to those who reigned and prospered and worked and suffered during the years when sugar cane was king in Louisiana in the hopes that Southdown Plantation will ever remain - the House that Sugar Built.

House Built on Ashes

Author : José Antonio Rodríguez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806158743
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book House Built on Ashes written by José Antonio Rodríguez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez, a doctoral student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, is packing his suitcase, getting ready to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns from his father that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border village where he was born. Now, because of the violence there, he won’t be able to visit his early-childhood home. Instead, his memories will have to take him back. Thus, Rodríguez begins a meditative journey into the past. Through a series of vignettes, he mines the details of a childhood and adolescence fraught with deprivation but offset by moments of tenderness and beauty. Suddenly he is four years old again, and his mother is feeding him raw sugarcane for the first time. With the sweetness still on his tongue, he runs to a field, where he falls asleep under a glowing pink sky. The conditions of rural poverty prove too much for his family to bear, and Rodríguez moves with his mother and three of his nine siblings across the border to McAllen, Texas. Now a resident of the “other side,” Rodríguez experiences the luxury of indoor toilets and gazes at television commercials promising more food than he has ever seen. But there is no easy passage into this brighter future. Poignant and lyrical, House Built on Ashes contemplates the promises, limitations, and contradictions of the American Dream. Even as it tells a deeply personal story, it evokes larger political, cultural, and social realities. It speaks to what America is and what it is not. It speaks to a world of hunger, prejudice, and far too many boundaries. But it speaks, as well, to the redemptive power of beauty and its life-sustaining gift of hope.

Mean Things Happening in this Land

Author : H. L. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186070
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Mean Things Happening in this Land written by H. L. Mitchell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles—against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class—to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields. In addition to its original foreword, by renowned socialist intellectual Michael Harrington, this edition contains a new preface by Samuel Mitchell and the author’s posthumous corrections and additions.

Justin Wilson's Cajun Fables

Author : Justin Wilson
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455606955
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Justin Wilson's Cajun Fables written by Justin Wilson and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1982-01-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine classic Mother Goose with a South Louisiana Acadian setting and the artistry of renowned Cajun humorist Justin Wilson, and the result is a captivating book that will delight children and adults of all ages. For this book, American's formost interpreter of things Cajun has chosen five familiar stories and 19 favorite nursery rhymes. By applying his inimitable bayou-country style, Wilson has produces what will undoubtedly become a modern classic. "Goldilocks and the Three Crawfish," "The Three Little Couchons," Petite Rouge Riding Hood," "Three Blind Possums", and "Jacques and Jill" are just a few of the recognizable tales and rhymes that receive the Wilson touch in these pages. Jay Hadley (Coauthor) of Baton Rouge and Errol Troxclair (illustrator) of White Castle, in Louisiana's Cajun country, collaborated with Wilson on this book. Affectionately known as "Joos-tain" by his Cajun friends, Wilson is one of American's busiest after-dinner speakers. For more than three decades he has entertained audiences across the country with his humorous but admiring look at the Cajun people and their culture. A well-known gourmet cook and host of a syndicated cooking show on educational television ("Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin"), the multitalented Wilson has written four cookbooks-- The Justin Wilson Cook Book, The Justin Wilson #2 Cookbook: Cookin' Cajun , The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook, Justin Wilson's Outdoor Cooking With Inside Help, all which have sold multiple printings. He is also coauthor, with Howard Jacobs, of Justin Wilson's Cajun Humor.

Include Sugar Beets and Sugarcane as Basic Commodities

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Include Sugar Beets and Sugarcane as Basic Commodities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Increasing Production from the Land

Author : Coulson, Andrew
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9987083560
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Increasing Production from the Land written by Coulson, Andrew and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African agriculture faces major challenges with growing population pressure and the impact of climate change. Until now food production overall has broadly kept pace with demand. To maintain this impressive achievement, production from the land needs to be intensified, soil fertility must be enhanced, forests and water resources must be conserved, and land use practices must be sustainable over the long term. This book shows what needs to be done, and points to how best to achieve this. The book starts with a brief guide to what plants and animals need to grow well, how farmers currently use the land, and the research that is being conducted on new agricultural technologies. A comparison is made of productivity on small and large farms, which demonstrates that, contrary to some suggestions, small farmers, properly serviced, can be as productive or even more productive than larger farms. Subsequent chapters discuss issues of land tenure, pastoralism, training, the importance of women farmers, access to finance, markets, value chains, and contract farming as a partnership between small-scale producers, processors and traders in agricultural products. The final section of the book discusses whether a new “green revolution” is feasible or desirable for Africa. The potential risks and benefits of dependence on purchased agrochemicals, genetically modified varieties, and multinational seed and chemical companies are examined. A series of twelve broad policy proposals for achieving a sustainable agriculture sector is presented for consideration. Fifteen case studies illustrate the issues discussed in the book. Most of the examples are from East Africa, particularly Tanzania, but the principles addressed are relevant across the African continent. Each chapter of the book includes references and suggestions for further reading, most of them freely available to anyone with internet access. A set of essay questions exploring the issues covered in each chapter is included, to provide practical help for students of agriculture and their teachers.

Popular Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1922-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.