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Book Acadian Passage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanne Register
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2014-07-23
  • ISBN : 1483414515
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Acadian Passage written by Jeanne Register and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Acadian Passage, a tale of flight and rendezvous, love and loss, is rich with detail. The story of Acadia and the beauty of the place are vividly drawn as the tale unfolds. Readers will savor this seldom revisited corner of history, now brought to light." -Elizabeth Pomeroy, historian and author of John Muir, A Naturalist in Southern California "An enjoyable blend of history, romance and anthropology. Register brings the idyllic- then brutal- story of the Acadians to life." -Steven A. LeBlanc, author of Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage Jeanne Gleason Register is descended from French Acadians through her mother Marie Daigle. She began writing ACADIAN PASSAGE after she retired from teaching history and eleven years as Head of Mayfield Senior School. She graduated from Wellesley College and lives in Altadena, California.

Book Becoming Cajun  Becoming American

Download or read book Becoming Cajun Becoming American written by Maria Hebert-Leiter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Combining a study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history in light of recent social theories, she offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by Acadians -- who over time came to be known as Cajuns -- during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hebert-Leiter examines the entire history of the Acadian, or Cajun, in American literature, beginning with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline and the writings of George Washington Cable, including his novel Bonaventure. The cultural complexity of Acadian and Creole identities led many writers to rely on stereotypes in Acadian characters, but as Hebert-Leiter shows, the ambiguity of Louisiana's class and racial divisions also allowed writers to address complex and controversial -- and sometimes taboo -- subjects. She emphasizes the fiction of Kate Chopin, whose short stories contain Acadian characters accepted as white Americans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Representations of the Acadian in literature reflect the Acadians' path towards assimilation, as they celebrated their differences while still adopting an all-American notion of self. In twentieth-century writing, Acadian figures came to be more often called Cajun, and increasingly outsiders perceived them not simply as exotic or mythic beings but as complex persons who fit into traditional American society while reflecting its cultural diversity. Hebert-Leiter explores this transition in Ernest Gaines's novel A Gathering of Old Men and James Lee Burke's detective novels featuring Dave Robicheaux. She also discusses the works of Ada Jack Carver, Elma Godchaux, Shirley Ann Grau, and other writers. From Longfellow through Tim Gautreaux, Acadian and Cajun literature captures the stages of this fascinating cultural dynamism, making it a pivotal part of any history of American ethnicity and of Cajun culture in particular. Concise and accessible, Becoming Cajun, Becoming American provides an excellent introduction to American Acadian and Cajun literature.

Book Report Concerning Canadian Archives

Download or read book Report Concerning Canadian Archives written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year

Download or read book Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Work of the Public Archives

Download or read book Report of the Work of the Public Archives written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report on Canadian Archives and on the System of Keeping Public Records

Download or read book Report on Canadian Archives and on the System of Keeping Public Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Work of the Public Archives

Download or read book Report of the Work of the Public Archives written by Public Archives Canada and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix 42 in the report of the minister of agriculture for 1874 consists of a Report of proceedings connected with Canadian archives in Europe, by H.A.J.B. Verreau.

Book From Migrant to Acadian

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  • Author : N.E.S. Griffiths
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780773526990
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book From Migrant to Acadian written by N.E.S. Griffiths and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their position between warring French and British empires, European settlers in the Maritimes eventually developed from a migrant community into a distinctive Acadian society. From Migrant to Acadian is a comprehensive narrative history of how the Acadian community came into being. Acadian culture not only survived, despite attempts to extinguish it, but developed into a complex society with a unique identity and traditions that still exist in present day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Book The Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America  Acadia

Download or read book The Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America Acadia written by Nicolas Denys and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How We Got the New Testament  Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology

Download or read book How We Got the New Testament Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recognized expert in New Testament Greek offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and provides cutting-edge insights into how we got the New Testament in its ancient Greek and modern English forms. In part responding to those who question the New Testament's reliability, Stanley Porter rigorously defends the traditional goals of textual criticism: to establish the original text. He reveals fascinating details about the earliest New Testament manuscripts and shows that the textual evidence supports an early date for the New Testament's formation. He also explores the vital role translation plays in biblical understanding and evaluates various translation theories. The book offers a student-level summary of a vast amount of historical and textual information.

Book Acadia s Carriage Roads

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Thayer
  • Publisher : Down East Books
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 1461745004
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book Acadia s Carriage Roads written by Robert Thayer and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third title in the Acadia National Park guide series, Acadia's Carriage Roads covers the history, geology, and biology of the area. It includes practical advice and maps to help visitors get the most from their tours of the roads, whether on foot, by bicycle, or on cross-country skis. With their work-of-art stone bridges, these crushed-rock carriage roads — the result of decades of effort by philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. — are known throughout the world for their beauty.

Book Scripture and Tradition  Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology

Download or read book Scripture and Tradition Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology written by Edith M. Humphrey and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some of the church's history, Scripture has been pitted against tradition and vice versa. Prominent New Testament scholar Edith Humphrey, who understands the issue from both Protestant and Catholic/Orthodox perspectives, revisits this perennial point of tension. She demonstrates that the Bible itself reveals the importance of tradition, exploring how the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles show Jesus and the apostles claiming the authority of tradition as God's Word, both written and spoken. Arguing that Scripture and tradition are not in opposition but are necessarily and inextricably intertwined, Humphrey defends tradition as God's gift to the church. She also works to dismantle rigid views of sola scriptura while holding a high view of Scripture's authority.

Book The Acadian Diaspora

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  • Author : Christopher Hodson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 0199876460
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Acadian Diaspora written by Christopher Hodson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of central France. The Acadian Diaspora tells their extraordinary story in full for the first time, illuminating a long-forgotten world of imperial desperation, experimental colonies, and naked brutality. Using documents culled from archives in France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, Christopher Hodson reconstructs the lives of Acadian exiles as they traversed oceans and continents, pushed along by empires eager to populate new frontiers with inexpensive, pliable white farmers. Hodson's compelling narrative situates the Acadian diaspora within the dramatic geopolitical changes triggered by the Seven Years' War. Faced with redrawn boundaries and staggering national debts, imperial architects across Europe used the Acadians to realize radical plans: tropical settlements without slaves, expeditions to the unknown southern continent, and, perhaps strangest of all, agricultural colonies within old regime France itself. In response, Acadians embraced their status as human commodities, using intimidation and even violence to tailor their communities to the superheated Atlantic market for cheap, mobile labor. Through vivid, intimate stories of Acadian exiles and the diverse, transnational cast of characters that surrounded them, The Acadian Diaspora presents the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.

Book The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology  Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology

Download or read book The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology written by Mark J. Boda and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the theological heartbeat of the Old Testament by examining three big ideas that communicate the Old Testament's redemptive theology. Highly respected scholar Mark Boda shows how three creedal expressions--the narrative, character, and relational creeds--recur throughout the Old Testament and express its core redemptive theology, in turn revealing how the redemptive pulse of God expands to all of creation. He also traces these redemptive and creational pulses into the New Testament and shows their relevance for today's Christian community.

Book The Divine Christ  Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology

Download or read book The Divine Christ Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology written by David B. Capes and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past century, scholars have debated when and how a divine Christology emerged. This book considers the earliest evidence we have, the letters of Paul. David Capes, a veteran teacher and highly regarded scholar, examines Paul's letters to show how the apostle constructed his unique portrait of Jesus as divine through a rereading of Israel's Scriptures. This new addition to the Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology series is ideal for use in courses on Paul, Christology, biblical theology, and intertextuality.

Book The Scratch of a Pen

Download or read book The Scratch of a Pen written by Colin Gordon Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Most Americans know the significance of the Declaration of Independence or the Emancipation Proclamation, but not the Treaty of Paris. Yet 1763 was a year that shaped our history just as decisively as 1776 or 1862. This captivating book shows why.

Book The Physiography of Acadia

Download or read book The Physiography of Acadia written by Reginald Aldworth Daly and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: