Daily Life in Louisiana, 1815-1830 - Hardcover

Liliane Crete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807108871 ISBN 13: 9780807108871

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1981

Synopsis

"American since 1803, Louisiana long remained French in spirit and customs. As part of the French publisher Hachette's popular Daily Life series, Liliane Crete's entertaining, readable, and well-documented book re-creates the society of this unique state over a period of fifteen crucial years of prosperity and conflict. In this brief period two communities - indeed, two cultures with very different philosophies - struggled for leadership. By 1830 Creole Louisiana had begun its inevitable decline. "... this book presents a colorful narrative of the populations's daily life [and] vividly renders the varied lives of many Louisianians: slaves working in immense fields of cotton and sugarcane, planters living in their vast columned houses, black musicians singing their sorrows. Creoles and Americans, free people of color and whites, voodoo queens and Protestant preachers. Crete carefully, accurately reveals every aspect of life, habit, custom, and development in this story of the state and its people, of New Orleans, the ever-present Mississippi River, the swamps and the flatland crossed by bayous where the Cajuns lived, and the forests inhabited by Indians. . . ."

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Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807108871
• ISBN 13: 9780807108871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311