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Release : 1881
Genre : Louisiana
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Author : William H. Harris
Release : 2024-04-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Louisiana Products, Resources and Attractions, with a Sketch of the Parishes. Hand Book of Reliable Information Concerning the State by : William H. Harris
Download or read book Louisiana Products, Resources and Attractions, with a Sketch of the Parishes. Hand Book of Reliable Information Concerning the State written by William H. Harris. This book was released on 2024-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Wm; H. Harris
Release : 2015-08-04
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Louisiana Products, Resources and Attractions by : Wm; H. Harris
Download or read book Louisiana Products, Resources and Attractions written by Wm; H. Harris. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louisiana Products, Resources and Attractions: With a Sketch of the Parishes; A Hand Book of Reliable Information Concerning the State The State is traversed by many other navigable streams, the principal of which are the Red, the Ouachita, Atcha-falaya, Vermilion, Calcasieu, Amite, Tchefuncta and Tangipahoa, and Bayous Baritaria, Lafourche, Macon, Des Glaize and many others, giving thousands of miles of natural inland water-way for steamboats. The coast-line bordering the Gulf of Mexico is 1256 miles long, and the Mississippi river and its tributaries bear away through Louisiana the products of fourteen great States to the commercial centres of the world, among which New Orleans holds a commanding position. The State contains about (26,000,000) twenty-six million acres of land and (1,250,000) one and a quarter million acres of inland water surface. TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. The land is nearly equally divided into hilly and level lands. The lands of the State, may be approximately divided as follows: Good upland (5,250,000) five and a quarter million acres. Pine hills (5,500,000) five and a half million acres. Bluff lands (1,500,000) one and a half million acres. Prairie (2,500,000) two and a half million acres. Arable alluvial (3,500,000) three and a half million acres. Wooded alluvial (2,750,000) two and three-quarter million acres. Pine flats (1,500,000) one and a half million acres. Coast-marsh (3,500,000) three and a half million acres. The alluvial lands border the Mississippi river and other streams and bayous. In the spring the river is in many places higher than its natural banks, but is confined to the channel by artificial embankments called levees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Gilbert C. Din
Release : 1999-08-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Canary Islanders of Louisiana by : Gilbert C. Din
Download or read book The Canary Islanders of Louisiana written by Gilbert C. Din. This book was released on 1999-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canary Islanders, or Isleños, of Louisiana, like some of the state’s other ethnic groups, have received little scholarly attention. Although they are a people who have remained largely unknown both inside and outside of Louisiana, the Isleños constitute a sizable portion of the state’s present Spanish-surname population. Utilizing a wide range of source materials, from Spanish colonial documents to oral interviews, Gilbert C. Din’s The Canary Islanders of Louisiana provides the first book-length study of the Isleños and a definitive history of their presence in the state. The few thousand Canary Islanders brought to Louisiana by Spanish governors in the eighteenth century came from a group of islands that, although ostensibly Spanish, had evolved its own distinctive culture and folkways. Settled in frontier areas considered strategic for the defense of the Louisiana colony, the Isleños suffered deprivation, neglect, and eventually abandonment. Living for the most part in remote back-country and delta communities, the Isleños remained isolated from their French and American neighbors. In the twentieth century, pressures to assimilate with the mainstream of Louisiana society have threatened their culture with extinction, though a few Canarians still retain much of their Isleño heritage. Gilbert C. Din’s study of the Isleños covers the entire range of their association with Louisiana. He begins with a brief survey of Canarian history and folkways and concludes with a discussion of the likely ethnic future of the increasingly assimilated Isleño descendants. Din provides a detailed history of the Isleño migration and colonial settlement; post-colonial community development; economic, social, educational, and political patterns; and the course of Isleño assimilation with the general Louisiana population. Offering his own skillfully argued answers to long-standing debates about early Isleño settlements, Din also corrects a number of factual errors on the part of previous historians who did not have access to the same range of archival sources. The Canary Islanders of Louisiana is a strong piece of historical scholarship. It makes an original and much-needed contribution to the history of a people, of Louisiana, and of the American South.
Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Release : 2017-02-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ain't There No More by : Carl A. Brasseaux
Download or read book Ain't There No More written by Carl A. Brasseaux. This book was released on 2017-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library Association For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of modern coastal communities throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult lifestyle choices. Along the Bayou State's coast the most insidious challenges are man-made. Since channelization of the Mississippi River in the wake of the 1927 flood, which diverted sediments and nutrients from the wetlands, coastal Louisiana has lost to erosion, subsidence, and rising sea levels a land mass roughly twice the size of Connecticut. State and national policymakers were unable to reverse this environmental catastrophe until Hurricane Katrina focused a harsh spotlight on the human consequences of eight decades of neglect. Yet, even today, the welfare of Louisiana's coastal plain residents remains, at best, an afterthought in state and national policy discussions. For coastal families, the Gulf water lapping at the doorstep makes this morass by no means a scholarly debate over abstract problems. Ain't There No More renders an easily read history filled with new insights and possibilities. Rare, previously unpublished images documenting a disappearing way of life accompany the narrative. The authors bring nearly a century of combined experience to distilling research and telling this story in a way invaluable to Louisianans, to policymakers, and to all those concerned with rising sea levels and seeking a long-term solution.
