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Acadian to Cajun : transformation of a people, 1803-1877
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Acadian to Cajun : transformation of a people, 1803-1877

Author: Carl A Brasseaux
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Students of Acadian history have traditionally focused their attention upon the dispersal of Nova Scotia's Acadian population in 1755 and upon the reestablishment of numerous exiles in Louisiana's bayou country. The subsequent transformation of the exile's transplanted culture in this new, and radically different, subtropical environment, on the other hand, has been completely overlooked by Acadian scholars. This  Read more...
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Brasseaux, Carl A.
Acadian to Cajun.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1992
(OCoLC)608103888
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carl A Brasseaux
ISBN: 0878055827 9780878055821 0878055835 9780878055838
OCLC Number: 25915486
Description: xiv, 252 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Emergence of classes in the antebellum period --
Acadian folk life in the nineteenth century --
Acadians and politics, 1803-1860 --
Secession crisis and the civil war --
Declining economic fortunes in postbellum Louisiana --
Cultural Integration, transformation, and regeneration --
Politics and violence in the reconstruction era.
Responsibility: Carl A. Brasseaux.

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Students of Acadian history have traditionally focused their attention upon the dispersal of Nova Scotia's Acadian population in 1755 and upon the reestablishment of numerous exiles in Louisiana's bayou country. The subsequent transformation of the exile's transplanted culture in this new, and radically different, subtropical environment, on the other hand, has been completely overlooked by Acadian scholars. This work is the first to examine comprehensively the demographic growth, cultural evolution, and political involvement of Louisiana's large Acadian community between the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), when the transplanted culture began to take on a decidedly Louisiana character, and 1877, the end of Reconstruction in Louisiana, when traditional distinctions between Acadians and neighboring groups had ceased to be valid. Tracing the course of Acadian transformation is difficult because of few primary source materials, such as newspapers, correspondence, and diaries, as well as the society's widespread illiteracy. Thus the author of this volume developed innovative methodological techniques for extracting information from alternative historical resources, including civil records, federal census reports, ecclesiastical registers, legislative acts, and electoral returns. When used individually, these varied documentary resources provide a shallow, one-dimensional view of nineteenth-century Acadian/Cajun society, but, taken together, they afford a broad view of a largely nonliterate people whose contemporary oral traditions are now all but forgotten. This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples.

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