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  • French, Cajun, Creole, Houma
    Carl A. Brasseaux
    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, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana’s French-speaking region, Carl A....
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    26,97 €

  • French North America in the Shadows of Conquest
    Ryan André Brasseaux
    French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twentieth century, revealing hidden histories that so deeply shaped the course of North America. ...
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    76,99 €

  • Cajun Breakdown
    Ryan Andre Brasseaux
    In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem 'Jole Blon' reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the first time thanks to the unprecedented success of this issue, as the French tune crossed cultural,...
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    65,30 €

  • Kamryn
    Faith Brasseaux
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    14,28 €

  • Founding of New Acadia
    Carl A Brasseaux
    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 original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within...
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    31,12 €

  • Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
    Carl A. Brasseaux
    Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of south-western 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 attention.This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuri...
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    50,37 €

  • Acadian to Cajun
    Carl A. Brasseaux
    Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877by Carl A. BrasseauxAn enlightening assessment that provides understanding of how the Acadians of Nova Scotia were culturally transformed into the Cajuns of Louisiana.This book is the first to examine comprehensively the demographic growth, cultural evolution, and political involvement of Louisiana’s large Acadian community...
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    20,82 €