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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors

By Bernard, Shane K

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors book

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors

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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and high-school students, it will prove appealing and informative as well to adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these remarkable people and their predecessors. The narrative follows the Cajuns' early ancestors, the Acadians, from seventeenth-century France to Nova Scotia, where they flourished until British soldiers expelled them in a tragic event called Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Upheaval)--an episode regarded by many historians as an instance of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Up to one-half of the Acadian population died from disease, starvation, exposure, or outright violence in the expulsion. Nearly three thousand survivors journeyed through the thirteen American colonies to Spanish-controlled Louisiana. There they resettled, intermarried with members of the local population, and evolved into the Cajun people, who today number over a half-million. Since their arrival in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed an unmistakable identity and a strong sense of ethnic pride. In recent decades they have contributed their exotic cuisine and accordion-and-fiddle dance music to American popular culture. Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History includes numerous images and over a dozen sidebars on topics ranging from Cajun music to Mardi Gras.
Product details
Number of Pages:
104
Release Date:
2008-03-31
Publication Date:
2008-03-25
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1934110787
ISBN13:
9781934110782
Minimum Reading Age:
8
Maximum Reading Age:
12
Weight:
454 g
Height:
209 cm
Width:
253 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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