Winding through time [electronic resource] : the forgotten history and present-day peril of Bayou Manchac / Mary Ann Sternberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.Description: xii, 158 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 976.3/3 22
LOC classification:
  • F377.M23 S74 2007eb
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Contents:
What is Manchac? -- Exploring the bayou -- Community development, then and now -- Iberville discovers the bayou -- The bayou has a split personality -- Colonial development begins with the French -- An international boundary -- The British settle the Manchac-- -- And the Spanish settle the Manchac -- What the Louisiana Purchase meant -- When Andrew Jackson dammed the bayou -- The bayou in the nineteenth century -- The biggest little village on the bayou -- When the woodmen came -- Prehistory redux -- A quiet stream and modern development -- Spirit of place -- Contemporary struggles-- and possibilities -- Where are the rose-colored glasses?
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What is Manchac? -- Exploring the bayou -- Community development, then and now -- Iberville discovers the bayou -- The bayou has a split personality -- Colonial development begins with the French -- An international boundary -- The British settle the Manchac-- -- And the Spanish settle the Manchac -- What the Louisiana Purchase meant -- When Andrew Jackson dammed the bayou -- The bayou in the nineteenth century -- The biggest little village on the bayou -- When the woodmen came -- Prehistory redux -- A quiet stream and modern development -- Spirit of place -- Contemporary struggles-- and possibilities -- Where are the rose-colored glasses?

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