French, Cajun, Creole, Houma A Primer on Francophone Louisiana

Name: French, Cajun, Creole, Houma A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
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ISBN: 9780807130360

ISBN-10: 0807130362

ISBN-13: 9780807130360

Edition: 2005

Authors: Carl A. Brasseaux

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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. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities. Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals ranging from criminals to…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

The remarkable diversity of Louisiana's French-speaking population, 1699-1999	p. 1
Four hundred years of Acadian life in North America	p. 37
Creoles : a family portrait in black and white	p. 85
The Houma Nation	p. 117
French Louisiana historiography	p. 131
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