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Acadiana : Louisiana's historic Cajun country / text by Carl A. Brasseaux ; photographs by Philip Gould.
- Title
- Acadiana : Louisiana's historic Cajun country / text by Carl A. Brasseaux ; photographs by Philip Gould.
- Author
- Brasseaux, Carl A.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F369 .B814 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Gould, Philip, 1951-
- Description
- x, 190 p. : col. ill., col. map; 24 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- "In two hundred color photographs of historic architecture, landscapes, wildlife, and artifacts, Gould portrays the rich history still visible in the area, while Brasseaux?s engagingly written narrative covers the eighteenth- and nineteenth- century story of settlement and development in the region. Brasseaux brings the story up to date, recounting devastating hurricanes, coastal degradation"--Front dust jacket flap.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pointe Coupee and Avoyelles parishes -- The German and Acadian coasts -- The Lafourche-Terrebonne area -- The Upper Prairie area -- The Lower Prairie area -- A different evolutionary trajectory, 1865-1941 -- World War II to the present.
- ISBN
- 9780807137239 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807137235 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010021246
- OCLC
- 639939801
- SCSB-12823161
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library