Displaying 1 of 1 1992 Format: Book Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. Title: Acadian to Cajun : transformation of a people, 1803-1877 / Carl A. Brasseaux. Publisher, Date: Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, [1992] ©1992 Description: xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm illustration Subjects: Cajuns -- History -- 19th century. Louisiana -- History -- 1803-1865. Notes: Includes index. 510062 ; *510063 LCCN: 92017759 ISBN: 0878055827 (cloth) Other Number: 25915486 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 2 # Local items in: 2 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews CHOICE ReviewBrasseaux set himself a daunting goal--writing a social and political study of a largely nonliterate people. Louisiana's "Cajuns" settled in the area after their forced dispersal from French Acadia following British subjugation of that colony. Most studies of the Cajuns focus on that tragic part of their story and fail to follow through with information about how they adapted to their new surroundings. Brasseaux's work fills that gap admirably. Brasseaux traces the development of a distinctly Cajun culture and the growing acceptance of Anglo-American materialism and political activity, from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877 when, he maintains, traditional distinctions between the Cajuns and their neighbors had disappeared. He pieced together this history from court proceedings, federal census and Catholic church records, legislative acts, and election returns. The result of his copius work with these records is a pioneering book that will serve as a model for other ethnohistories. General; advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty. J. P. Sanson; Louisiana State Unversity at Alexandria Summary A study of unusual documentary resources that disclose the processes of cultural evolution that transformed the Acadians of early Louisiana into the Cajuns of today. Table of Contents Introductionp. xi1Emergence of Classes in the Antebellum Periodp. 32Acadian Folk Life in the Nineteenth Centuryp. 203Acadians and Politics, 1803-1860p. 454Secession Crisis and the Civil Warp. 585Declining Economic Fortunes in Postbellum Louisianap. 746Cultural Integration, Transformation, and Regenerationp. 897Politics and Violence in the Reconstruction Erap. 112Conclusionp. 150Appendixp. 155Notesp. 185Bibliographyp. 225Indexp. 243 Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
