Author: James William TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Agricultural Settlement Succession in the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana
Author: James William TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Agriculture Settlement Succession in the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana
Author: James William TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Black Ranching Frontiers
Author: Andrew SluyterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
DIVIn this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world./div DIVSluyter shows that Africans’ ideas and creativity helped to establish a production system so fundamental to the environmental and social relations of the American colonies that the consequences persist to the present. He examines various methods of cattle production, compares these methods to those used in Europe and the Americas, and traces the networks of actors that linked that Atlantic world. The use of archival documents, material culture items, and ecological relationships between landscape elements make this book a methodologically and substantively original contribution to Atlantic, African-American, and agricultural history./div
Bayou Built
Author: Peter MiresPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450263682
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Louisiana, the Bayou State, is famous for many things, including savory cuisine, great music, and a resident population whose mantra is laissez les bons temps roulerlet the good times roll! The place is also noted for its historic architecture, which ranges from simple forms such as the shotgun house or the Creole cottage to the celebrated plantation homes along the River Road. Bayou Built: The Legacy of Louisianas Historic Architecture examines the so-called built environment from the perspectives of cultural geography and historic preservation. It explores the various folk types and architectural styles that became part of the Louisiana landscape from the first French settlement in 1699 through the railroad and lumber boom of the 1890s.
Cajun Country
Author: Barry Jean AnceletPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604736178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.
A Creole Lexicon
Author: Jay EdwardsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138320
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and words borrowed from French, Spanish, English, Indian, and Caribbean sources -- developed to suit the multiethnic needs of settlers, planters, explorers, builders, surveyors, and government officials. Today, this historic vernacular is often opaque to historians, architects, attorneys, geographers, scholars, and the general public who need to understand its meanings. With A Creole Lexicon, Jay Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk provide a highly organized resource for its recovery. Here are definitions for thousands of previously lost or misapplied terms, including watercraft and land vehicles, furniture, housetypes unique to Louisiana, people, and social categories. Drawn directly from travelers' accounts, historic maps, and legal documents, the volume's copious entries document what would actually have been heard and seen by the peoples of the Louisiana territory. Newly produced diagrams and drawings as well as reproductions of original eighteenth- and nineteenth-century documents and Historic American Buildings Surveys enhance understanding. Sixteen subject indexes list equivalent English words for easy access to appropriate Creole translations. A Creole Lexicon is an invaluable resource for exploring and preserving Louisiana's cultural heritage.
Mississippi Deltaic Plain Region Ecological Characterization
Author: Willdan AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gulf Region (Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Environment and Settlement on the Southwestern Louisiana Prairies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bayou Mallet Watershed (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Mélanges
Author: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Museum of GeosciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
French Louisiana
Author: Robert B. HoltmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description