Winding through time the forgotten history and present-day peril of Bayou Manchac /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2007.
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| Online toegang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- What is Manchac?
- Exploring the bayou
- Community development, then and now
- Iberville discovers the bayou
- The bayou has a split personality
- Colonial development begins with the French
- An international boundary
- The British settle the Manchac--
- And the Spanish settle the Manchac
- What the Louisiana Purchase meant
- When Andrew Jackson dammed the bayou
- The bayou in the nineteenth century
- The biggest little village on the bayou
- When the woodmen came
- Prehistory redux
- A quiet stream and modern development
- Spirit of place
- Contemporary struggles-- and possibilities
- Where are the rose-colored glasses?