Le guide de la Louisiane

Le guide de la Louisiane
Author: Eléonore Brisbois
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 1995
Genre: Louisiana
ISBN: 9782737703911

Il est des noms magiques : Louisiane, Mississipi, Nouvelle-Orléans qui ont tissé la trame du rêve américain. En Louisiane, dans le torrent des siècles, sont passés Indiens, aventuriers, explorateurs, colons, nobles, esclaves, bourgeois, saints et ruffians, pirates et soldats, hommes à la peau cuivrée, blanche, noire. La Louisiane a connu richesse, gloire et disgrâce. Dans le Vieux Sud romantique, est enclose la nostalgie d'une vie harmonieuse et élégante, à l'heure parme du crépuscule qui rappelle l'âge d'or, quand les planteurs buvaient leur mint julep dans des gobelets d'argent, éventés par de petits négrillons. Leur prospérité était née du sang des Noirs qui ployaient leur tête floconneuse sur le coton et de la terre d'où jaillit l'or noir. De cette époque, bravant les guerres, les ouragans et les incendies, ont survécu quelques bateaux à aubes qui remontent paresseusement le Mississipi et les manoirs aux colonnades ivoiriennes, gardiens d'un glorieux passé. La Louisiane, c'est aussi le pays d'élection d'un peuple aussi généreux que sa terre : on se sent bien dans les villages de pilotis le long du bayou, quand le soleil se lève derrière les chênes drapés de mousse espagnole, autour d'une table opulente chargée de boudin, de gratons, d'épis de maïs et d'immenses plats d'écrevisses ou au cœur d'un " fais dodo " endiablé quand l'archet satanique du ménétrier invite à entrer dans la danse. Les champs de pétrole plantés de derricks ne font pas oublier la beauté du bassin de l'Atchafalaya au printemps, ni les lacs ombragés de pins où il fait bon pêcher. Même les enterrements deviennent une fête dans cette région où il y a presque autant de festivals que de jours dans l'année. Il est vrai que la musique éclate partout. Des accents enchanteurs des vieux blues au washboard strident de la zydéco, de l'accordéon optimiste des orchestres cajuns aux ritournelles sirupeuses de la country. Alors, il ne reste plus qu'à " laisser le bon temps rouler " comme disent les Acadiens.

Re-creating the American Past

Re-creating the American Past
Author: Richard Guy Wilson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813923482

Although individually and collectively Americans have many histories, the dominant view of our national past focuses on the colonial era. The reasons for this are many and complex, touching on stories of the country's origins and of the founding fathers, the privileged position in history granted the thirteen original colonies, and the ways in which the nation has adjusted to change and modernity. But no matter the cause, the result is obvious: images and forms derived from and related to America's colonial past are the single most popular form of cultural expression. Often conceived solely in architectural terms, from the red-brick and white-trimmed buildings that recall eighteenth-century James River estates to the clapboarded saltboxes that recall early New England, Colonial Revival is in fact better understood as a process of remembering. In Re-creating the American Past, architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and a host of other scholars examine how and why Colonial Revival has persisted in modern times. The volume contains essays that explore Colonial Revival expressions in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, decorative arts, and painting and sculpture, as well as the social, intellectual, and cultural background of the phenomena. Based on the University of Virginia's landmark 2000 conference "The Colonial Revival in America," Re-creating the American Past is a comprehensive and handsome volume that recovers the origins, characteristics, diversity, and significance of the Colonial Revival, situating it within the broader history of American design, culture, and society.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Astor Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1857
Genre:
ISBN:

Louisiana

Louisiana
Author: Louisiana Writers' Project
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1947
Genre:
ISBN:

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans
Author: Thomas N. Ingersoll
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572330245

"Since Louisiana fell under the administration of France and Spain before becoming a U.S. territory in 1803, the case of New Orleans offers an opportunity to test the long-standing thesis that slave regimes under the French, Spanish, and Anglo-Americans were significantly different. Ingersoll finds that, by contrast, the city's development was remarkably continuous, affected mainly by the changing volume of its slave trade between 1719 and 1808 and thereafter primarily by urban conditions."--Couv.

Memoirs of My Life

Memoirs of My Life
Author: Robert D. Bush
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807128701

Pierre Clément de Laussat was the last representative of a foreign power to exercise authority in Louisiana. Appointed colonial prefect by Napoleon Bonaparte, Laussat departed for Louisiana in January 1803 to preside over the formal retrocession of the colony from Spain to France, only to have his mission altered entirely by the Louisiana Purchase on April 30, 1803. These memoirs, covering the period from January 1803 to July 1804, provide a unique firsthand perspective on the momentous transaction that doubled the size of the United States. Laussat pens very personal observations on Louisiana's people and customs, Spanish and American officials with whom he had frequent contact, the local physical environment and economic system, and the formalities involved with the transfer of the colony to the United States. Memoirs of My Life furnishes rare insights into culture, politics, and everyday life in early-nineteenth-century Louisiana.