Carl A. Brasseaux
Auteur van Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
Over de Auteur
Carl A. Brasseaux is a professor of history and the director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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Werken van Carl A. Brasseaux
The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803 (1987) 45 exemplaren
Ruined by This Miserable War: The Dispatches of Charles Prosper Fauconnet, a French Diplomat in New Orleans, 1863-1868… (2013) 5 exemplaren
The Foreign French: Nineteenth Century French Immigration into Louisiana, Vol. 1: 1820-1839 (1990) 4 exemplaren
Denis-Nicolas Foucault and the New Orleans Rebellion of 1768 (The Mcginty Monograph Series) (1987) 3 exemplaren
Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain (America's Third Coast Series) (2017) 3 exemplaren
Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou (America's Third Coast Series) (2022) 3 exemplaren
The Foreign French: 19th Century French Immigration into Louisiana, Vol. 3: 1849-1852 (1993) 2 exemplaren
The Foreign French: Nineteenth-Century French Immigration into Louisiana, Vol. 2: 1840-1848 (1992) 2 exemplaren
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A Comparative view of French Louisiana, 1699 and 1762 : the journals of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and… (1981) — Vertaler — 7 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Brasseaux, Carl A.
- Officiële naam
- Brasseaux, Carl Anthony
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Bourque, Antoine (pen name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1951-08-15
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Opelousas, Louisiana, USA (birthplace)
- Relaties
- Fontenot, Keith P. (co-author)
Oubre, Claude F. (co-author)
Brasseaux, Ryan A. (son) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Louisiana Writer Award (2003)
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- #81,815
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- 4.0
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- 41
Maps going back centuries show the constant ebb and flow of land and water. Louisiana is ever changing. One estimate says a football field size lot is created or destroyed every hour. But settlers refused to work with nature; they insisted on bending nature to their wants. Wetlands were considered worthless – even though they provided game, furs and feathers for industry. So levees and canals redirected the Mississippi – with disastrous results. The canals mean all the silt flows right into the Gulf of Mexico, and when added to constant erosion and damage from hurricanes and flooding, Louisiana is in dire shrink mode, with no compensating factors. Since the 1930s, it has lost nearly 2000 square miles of coastal land. Neverending flooding meant locals built homes on stilts, or at very least lived on the second floor. Roads to connect coastal settlements were pointless, because either the road or the settlement could disappear at any time.
Agriculture in Louisiana is a litany of failure. Cotton, sugar, cattle, strawberries and rice all failed. In the case of rice, grids of canals to flood rice paddies eventually allowed saltwater incursion, ruining both land and water supplies. Sugarcane fermented in the frosts and became worthless. Gulf shrimp have been so polluted by the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, even the federal government says no one should eat more than four a month. In every case, Man’s hand can be seen working against nature.
On the human side, Louisiana suffered greatly when slavery ended, but learned to use child labor as badly as anyone had ever seen. And Louisianans are sedentary; they don’t move away to find a better life. It is not uncommon to find tenth generation families living in the same place. For a state so rocked by disaster and hardship, that is remarkable, and worrying.
Ultimately, the book disappoints a little, because it seems to want to be a museum catalog rather than a view of the world. All the old photos, bills of lading, contracts, share certificates and maps are interesting, but the collection needs editing if it wants to make a point. And although it is nicely laid out, with a lot of brown shaded sidebars and full color whenever the originals had it, you really need to see it on paper. The electronic version is a minor nightmare of zooming in and out, hundreds of times, to read the tiny type of the highly detailed captions and try to read the original text in the images of the documents. Stick to paper for this one.
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