Rethinking New Acadia: Recent Interpretations of the Acadians' Dispersal and Arrival in Louisiana

by Michael Martin

Overview

Rethinking New Acadia presents cutting edge research into and new ways of thinking about the dispersal of the Acadians and their arrival in southwestern Louisiana. This book is required reading for historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in understanding Le Grande Dérangement more deeply than ever before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946160461
Publisher:	University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Publication date:	06/15/2019
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	1,060,235
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael S. Martin (editor) holds the Cheryl Courrégé Burguières/Board of Regents Professorship in History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research and teaching interests focus on Louisiana history, public history, and the history of the U.S. South. Martin's most recent publications include The Louisiana Experience (as co-author, 2017), Creolization in the French Americas (as co-editor, 2015); Russell Long: A Life in Politics (2014), Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State (as co-editor, 2013), Louisiana Beyond Black and White: Recent Interpretations of Twentieth-Century Race and Race Relations (as editor, 2011) and Historic Lafayette (2007). He also is managing editor of the journal Louisiana History, the state's historical journal published quarterly by the Louisiana Historical Association.

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Essays include:

The Expulsion of the Acadians in a Broader Context

by John Mack Faragher (Yale University)

The Acadian Refugees in France

by Jean-François Mouhot (Les Courmettes, France)

The Environmental Context: Bayou Teche as the Acadians Found It

by Shane Bernard (McIlhenny Company)

The Initial Acadian Settlement: A New Look at its

Location in the Attakapas

by Donald J. Arceneaux (independent scholar)

Finding Nouvelle Acadie: Lost Colonies,

Collective Memory, and the New Acadia Project

by Mark Rees (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction Michael S. Martin vii

The Expulsion of the Acadians in a Broader Context John Mack Faracher 1

The Acadian Refugees in France Jean-François Mouhot 9

The Environmental Context: Bayou Teche as the Acadians Found It Shane Bernard 35

The Initial Acadian Settlement: A New Look at its Location in the Attakapas Donald J. Arceneaux 43

Finding Nouvelle Acadie: Lost Colonies, Collective Memory, and the New Acadia Project Mark Rees 71

Indians, Settlers, and Slaves on a Colonial Frontier: The Acadians among Other Peoples Daniel J. Usner 93

About the Authors 111

Acknowledgments 113

Index 115

Editorial Reviews

“These essays are based on serious, meticulous research, taking into consideration historical, environmental, and geo-political contexts. They add to the critically important ongoing discussions about who we are, where we come from, and how we got here.”

–Barry Jean Ancelet, Director, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, Professor Emeritus and Center for Louisiana Studies Research Fellow, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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