Resultaten gefilterd op "University of Louisiana"

Scopena

Charles E Roemer, Charles Roemer

• Paperback | Engels
• In Scopena: A Memoir of Home, former U.S. representative and Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer shares with readers his early experiences growing up on h... Lees meer

Anthologie de la Littrature Louisianaise d'Expression Francaise de 1682 Nos Jours

• Paperback | Engels
• Cette anthologie propose une vue d'ensemble de la littrature d'expression franaise en Louisiane, depuis les crits historiques du dbut de la colonie ju... Lees meer

Megan's Guitar

Darrell Bourque

• Paperback | Engels | Louisiana Writers
• Megan's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie is a reflection of contemporary life in Acadiana in Louisiana and it is a story of the legend(s) of the jou... Lees meer

Nasty Water

James Nolan

• Paperback | Engels
• James Nolan describes this collection of his New Orleans poems as an "autobiography of place," for which he selected fifty poems written over a span o... Lees meer

Dying to Tell

Anne Butler, C Murray Henderson

• Paperback | Engels
• In fascinating detail, Dying to Tell gives us an in-depth look at different kinds of criminal deaths: ...the absolutely senseless slaying of a young c... Lees meer

Creole Genesis

Craig A Bauer

• Paperback | Engels
• The Bringiers were among Louisiana's most prominent families during most of the 19th century. Though bits and pieces about the family and their many p... Lees meer

A Leader Among Peers

Craig A Bauer

• Paperback | Engels
• The history of Louisiana is replete with many prominent personalities who were instrumental in guiding the social and political direction of the state... Lees meer

Bayou Song

Margaret Simon, Anna Cantrell, Henry Cancienne

• Met spiraalrug | Engels
• Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the South Louisiana Landscape is a poetic journey along Louisiana's Bayou Teche. Through poetry and art, explore ... Lees meer

The Saffron Scourge

Jo Ann Carrigan

• Paperback | Engels
• This ground breaking study is the first to comprehensively examine the history of yellow fever in Louisiana. As the state's largest city and principal... Lees meer

The Road to Louisiana

• Paperback | Engels
• This anthology constitutes the first attempt to fill comprehensively one of the most enduring lacunae in Louisiana historiography--the French-Antillia... Lees meer

Working in the Big Easy

Thomas Jessen Adams, Steve Striffler

• Paperback | Engels
• Working in the Big Easy not only provides rich accounts of discrete cases in the city's labor history; it is also a significant call for further resea... Lees meer

New Iberia

• Paperback | Engels
• New Iberia was founded by a handful of Spaniards in the spring of 1779. In the more than two hundred years that have elapsed since that event, the tow... Lees meer

Dirty Rice

Gerald Duff

• Paperback | Engels
• Much like minor league baseball itself, the story of Gemar Batiste's season in the Evangeline League is a work of satire, humor, tragedy, and triumph. Lees meer

The Windmill Chaser

Robert Livingston

• Hardcover | Engels
• Robert L."Bob" Livingston Jr. was born to an American middle-class family. His father left when he was very young, but Livingston and his sister were ... Lees meer

Louisiana Trail Riders

Jeremiah Ariaz

• Hardcover | Engels
• African American Trail Riding Clubs have their roots in the Creole culture formed in South Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Today trail rides are ... Lees meer

From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square

Jeroen Dewulf

• Paperback | Engels
• From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians presents a provocatively new interpretation of one o... Lees meer

Audubon

• Hardcover | Engels
• These essays provide the best available introduction to the life and times of John James Audubon. Lees meer

The Acadian Refugees in France 1758-1785

Jean-Franois Mouhot

• Paperback | Engels
• This book examines the Acadians while exiled in France. Based on a tremendous amount of primary source research, Mouhot tells their story in great det... Lees meer

Dead Dog Lying & Other Stories

Norman German

• Paperback | Engels
• The stories of Dead Dog Lying shine a hard light on society's misfits: the misshapen in mind and body, children mystified by the adult world, and grow... Lees meer

Lynda Frese

Alejandro Malo, Mary Ann Wilson, Laura Blereau

• Paperback | Engels | Louisiana Artists
• Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the Hilliard University Art Museum, this catalogue presents the work of visual artist Lynda Frese. I... Lees meer

Clinton, Louisiana

Elaine Thompson

• Paperback | Engels
• Examining the town's history from 1826 to 1877, Thompson showcases Clinton as a window through which one can view the importance of small towns in the... Lees meer

Soul Exchange

• Hardcover | Engels
• Soul Exchange is an exploration of the art and life of Dennis Paul Williams, a St. Martinville native who has made a lifelong career painting spirits ... Lees meer

In Ordinary Light

Darrell Bourque

• Paperback | Engels | Louisiana Writers
• "In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems" is a compilation of poems written by Darrell Bourque, Louisiana's Poet Laureate, over the last forty years... Lees meer

Hell or High Water

Ron Thibodeaux

• Paperback | Engels
• Americans will long remember 2005 as the year of the hurricane, when so many storms formed in the north Atlantic that we ran out of names and had to u... Lees meer