"In her introduction, Sybil Kein immediately addresses perhaps the book's most important - and controversial - question: who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native …
"In her introduction, Sybil Kein immediately addresses perhaps the book's most important - and controversial - question: who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native …
"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate for a moment ... '" "So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from e…
The story of Manon Lescaut is a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from eighteenth-century Paris - with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses - via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement among the treeless wastes of Louisiana. …
Louisiana: a history
by Cummins, Light Townsend, Rodrigue, John C., Levy, Simon, Wall, Bennett H.
Louisiana: a history
by Cummins, Light Townsend, Rodrigue, John C., Levy, Simon, Wall, Bennett H.
Louisiana: a history
by Cummins, Light Townsend, Rodrigue, John C., Levy, Simon, Wall, Bennett H.
"Incorporating the latest historical literature, the text focuses not only on political but also social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and artistic history within the Pelican State. Organized in four parts. Louisiana; A History explores how events outside the colony, territo…
Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America's most colorful state.<br /> <…
