Reducere. The core of the LSU campus is an example of what we can do when we set our sights high. It stands out today as one of the most successful and inspi...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. Unsurpassed since their publication fifty years ago, Ezra J. Warner s Genderals in Blue and Generals in Gray provide a complete guide to the milita...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Craig W. MarksButterflies abound in every region of the Bayou State, and with this authoritative resource in hand, both the...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Earl J. HessDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transpor...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. New Roads and Old Rivers captures the natural and cultural vitality of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, as seen in the stunning photographs of Rich...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, the arts, photography & photographs
Reducere. A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, the arts, architecture
Reducere. Nestled on the banks of the Cane River, Natchitoches (pronounced NAK-i-tush) is perhaps the most beautiful inland town in Louisiana. Founded in 171...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics
Reducere. Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at L...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, the arts, photography & photographs
Reducere. At nearly 1.4 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin in south central Louisiana comprises America's largest swamp wilderness. Award-winning nature ph...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. Located at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped Mississippi flyway zone, south Louisiana serves as a seasonal stopover for wintering birds from all ...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia during the Overland Campaign has...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. In the post--World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America'...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, chemistry
Reducere. Mardi Gras festivities don't end after the parades roll through the streets; rather, a large part of the celebration continues unseen by the genera...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. DescriptionToo often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range ...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general
Reducere. New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polariz...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. DescriptionA National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, wa...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home a...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Susan V. DonaldsonFirst published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. In March of 1972, civil rights activists and black power leaders met for three days in Gary, Indiana, looking to end their intense four-year feud t...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. In John Kennedy Toole's iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibe...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq served in several posts as diplomatic representative for the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I (Ki...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last ...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general
Reducere. Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climacti...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconst...
louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary