Voices From An Early American Convent
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Voices From An Early American Convent
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Author : Marie-Madeleine Hachard
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2007
Voices From An Early American Convent written by Marie-Madeleine Hachard and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with New Orleans (La.) categories.
"In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Their convent was the first in the territory that would eventually be part of the United States. Notable for establishing a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony's military hospital, and sustained an aggressive program of catechesis among the enslaved population of colonial Louisiana that contributed to the development of a large, active Afro-Catholic congregation in New Orleans. In Voices from an Early American Convent, Emily Clark extends the boundaries of early American women's history through the firsthand accounts of these remarkable French missionaries, in particular Marie Madeleine Hachard." "The heart of the volume consists of letters that Hachard wrote to her father in Rouen describing the physical and emotional ordeal of crossing the Atlantic, the startling combination of strangeness and familiarity of Louisiana, and the exhilaration of participating in a unique missionary adventure. Biographies of pioneering Ursulines, written as obituaries by the nuns who survived them, add to the missionaries' story. Clark also includes a contemporary account of the festive procession the nuns made through New Orleans in 1734 to their newly constructed convent compound. These fascinating documents reveal early American women of determination, courage, and conviction, who left behind the traditional roles of wife and mother to embrace lives of public service. From within their cloister they made an indelible impact on the lives of early colonists."--BOOK JACKET.
The World The Flesh And The Devil
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Author : Patricia Cleary
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2011-07
The World The Flesh And The Devil written by Patricia Cleary and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with History categories.
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From France to the Frontier -- Chapter 2: Settling "Paincourt" : Indians, the Fur Trade, and Farms -- Chapter 3: "A Strange Mixture" : Rulers, Misrule, and Unruly Inhabitants in the 1760s -- Chapter 4: Power Dynamics and the Indian Presence in St. Louis -- Chapter 5: Sex, Race, and Empire: The Peopling of St. Louis -- Chapter 6: "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" : Conflicts over Religion, Alcohol, and Authority -- Chapter 7: A Village in Crisis: Conflict and Violence on the Brink of War -- Chapter 8: "l'Année du Coup" : The "Last Day of St. Louis" and the Revolutionary War -- Chapter 9: The Struggles of the 1780s -- Chapter 10: St. Louis in the 1790s: The Enemies Within and Without -- Conclusion: "The Devil Take All" or "A Happy Change"? : The End of European Rule and the American Takeover -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Big Muddy
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Author : Christopher Morris
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-21
The Big Muddy written by Christopher Morris and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with History categories.
In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has changed, for the river and for the surrounding valley. Indeed, by the 1890s, the valley was rapidly drying. Morris shows how centuries of increasingly intensified human meddling--including deforestation, swamp drainage, and levee construction--led to drought, disease, and severe flooding. He outlines the damage done by the introduction of foreign species, such as the Argentine nutria, which escaped into the wild and are now busy eating up Louisiana's wetlands. And he critiques the most monumental change in the lower Mississippi Valley--the reconstruction of the river itself, largely under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers. Valley residents have been paying the price for these human interventions, most visibly with the disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina. Morris also describes how valley residents have been struggling to reinvigorate the valley environment in recent years--such as with the burgeoning catfish and crawfish industries--so that they may once again live off its natural abundance. Morris concludes that the problem with Katrina is the problem with the Amazon Rainforest, drought and famine in Africa, and fires and mudslides in California--it is the end result of the ill-considered bending of natural environments to human purposes.
Catholicism Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
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Author : Allyson Poska
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-06
Catholicism Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by Allyson Poska and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with categories.
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Louisiana Creole Literature
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Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2013-10
Louisiana Creole Literature written by Catharine Savage Brosman and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A broad overview of the tremendous achievement of Louisiana writers in the Creole tradition
Jazz La Creole
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Author : Caroline Vézina
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-11-29
Jazz La Creole written by Caroline Vézina and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with Music categories.
During the formative years of jazz (1890–1917), the Creoles of Color—as they were then called—played a significant role in the development of jazz as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, and composers. Indeed, music penetrated all aspects of the life of this tight-knit community, proud of its French heritage and language. They played and/or sang classical, military, and dance music as well as popular songs and cantiques that incorporated African, European, and Caribbean elements decades before early jazz appeared. In Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz, the author describes the music played by the Afro-Creole community since the arrival of enslaved Africans in La Louisiane, then a French colony, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, emphasizing the many cultural exchanges that led to the development of jazz. Caroline Vézina has compiled and analyzed a broad scope of primary sources found in diverse locations from New Orleans to Quebec City, Washington, DC, New York City, and Chicago. Two previously unpublished interviews add valuable insider knowledge about the music on French plantations and the danses Créoles held in Congo Square after the Civil War. Musical and textual analyses of cantiques provide new information about the process of their appropriation by the Creole Catholics as the French counterpart of the Negro spirituals. Finally, a closer look at their musical practices indicates that the Creoles sang and improvised music and/or lyrics of Creole songs, and that some were part of their professional repertoire. As such, they belong to the Black American and the Franco-American folk music traditions that reflect the rich cultural heritage of Louisiana.
The Story Of French New Orleans
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Author : Dianne Guenin-Lelle
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-02-04
The Story Of French New Orleans written by Dianne Guenin-Lelle and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-04 with History categories.
What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French socio-cultural dynamic left on the Crescent City. The migration of Acadians to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced its Francophone identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the Antebellum South, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The book analyzes these connections and the shared process of creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin. It suggests "French" New Orleans might be understood as a trope for unscripted "original" Creole social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests that an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially-bound and contested social order within the United States.
Women S History Of The Christian Church
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Author : Elizabeth Gillan Muir
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Women S History Of The Christian Church written by Elizabeth Gillan Muir and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with History categories.
Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church. From the earliest female apostle, and the little known stories of the two Marys - the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene - to the enlightened duties espoused by the nun, the abbess, and the anchorite, and the persecutions of female "witches," Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity. Offering broad coverage of both the Catholic and Protestant traditions and extending geographically well beyond North America, A Women's History of the Christian Church presents a chronological account of how women developed new sects and new churches, such as the Quakers and Christian Science. The book includes a timeline of women in Christian history, over 25 black-and-white illustrations, a glossary, and a list of primary and secondary sources to complement the content in each chapter.
Sacrifice And Survival
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Author : R. Eric Platt
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Sacrifice And Survival written by R. Eric Platt and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Education categories.
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
The Accidental City
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Author : Lawrence N. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-13
The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-13 with History categories.
Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.