Congressional Record

Congressional Record PDF Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1352

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Congressional Record

Congressional Record PDF Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1352

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The Statesman's Yearbook 2023

The Statesman's Yearbook 2023 PDF Author: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 134996056X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1430

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Now in its 159th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.

Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture

Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture PDF Author: John LaFleur II
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736820550
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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In this provocative and poignant book, 500 Years Of Culture: Louisiana's Creole French & Metis People, Food, Language and Culture, I seek to provide my intelligent lay readers appropriate and useful scholarly resources which illustrate that a pre-Acadian culture of Canadian and North American Métis roots, to which was added European, African and later Spanish elements combined in both “Upper” and "Lower Louisiana" resulting in a multi-ethnic, but distinctly unique Louisiana Creole culture. Though reminiscent of other kindred Creole cultures and people of the world of the former French Empire, she remains unique. This unique historic, but forgotten culture existed prior to the arrival of the Acadians, and its cultural and linguistic traditions resulted in Louisiana’s historic “Creole” culture. This multi-ethnic culture's food ways, language and social traditions were hijacked and promoted as if it was something totally new in the 1970s and 80s, and then relabeled "Cajun" with no regard for the pre-existant and dominant history and sensibilities of the non-white ethnicities who were the true originators and creators of Louisiana's long indigenous and pre-Acadian culture! It is my hope to sufficiently demonstrate through this historical narrative, which is both passionate and humorous, how greed, ignorance and commerce joined hands in relabeling Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic Creole French and metis culture as if Acadian-Canada was the source of this remarkable and unusual culture which remains foreign to anything in Acadie! Informative and well-researched, I submit to you the reading and caring public, this revision which is also a much more readable, better edited and supplemented text. In this book, for example, a badly needed chapter on the cultural relationship between Louisiana Creole and Haitian Creole culture is provided and will prove to be a great source of help in avoiding needless confusion of these two separate, but kindred cultures. Though small, this little book will no doubt, prove to be a powerhouse of jaw-dropping facts, as it is an uproariously humorous expose' of one of the most popular cultural forces in America and across the planet today! And, notwithstanding our best efforts, sometimes typographical errors and misses occur. For whatever imperfections of text remain, I take full responsibility as I also apologize to you dear reader.

Gentle Tiger

Gentle Tiger PDF Author: Charles L. Dufour
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807166219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Chatham Roberdeau Wheat has rightly been called the grandest of Civil War heroes. Born a Virginia gentleman, this handsome giant was by turns lawyer, politician, filibusterer, wit, bon vivant, and soldier of fortune. Perhaps the most experienced soldier on either side at the outbreak of the Civil War, Wheat led the “Louisiana Tigers”—notorious as the wildest battalion in either army—in some of the war’s bloodiest battles, including Bull Run, the Valley, and the Seven Days. Idolized by his men for his courage and camaraderie, he was adored by women for his dash and gallantry. In this comprehensive biography, originally published in 1957, Charles L. Dufour details Wheat’s life and loves—from his turbulent school days to his early and heroic end at Gaines Mill. Based largely on letters and unpublished family documents, Dufour’s work—the first in-depth study of Wheat—stands as the most vivid portrait of this fantastic young soldier.

Bulletin

Bulletin PDF Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Texas Zydeco

Texas Zydeco PDF Author: Roger Wood
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292786622
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they resettled, so did their music. Texas Zydeco describes how many of the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston. As the new players traveled back and forth between Houston and Lafayette, Louisiana, they spread the new sound along a "zydeco corridor" that is the musical axis around which zydeco revolves to this day. Roger Wood and James Fraher spent years traveling this corridor, interviewing and photographing hundreds of authentic musicians, dancers, club owners, and fans. As their words and images make clear, zydeco, both historically and today, belongs not to a state but to all the people of the upper Gulf Coast.

The Waterways Journal

The Waterways Journal PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Purchasing Agent

Purchasing Agent PDF Author:
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Category : Purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Weekly Market Growers' Journal

Weekly Market Growers' Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Farm produce
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Concrete Highway Magazine

Concrete Highway Magazine PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Concrete
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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