A Question of Inheritance: Religion, Education, and Louisiana's Cultural Boundary, 1880-1940 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780940984790)

This is a study of the relationship between cultural change and the persistence of cultural identities in two distinct sections of Louisiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the early nineteenth century, Louisiana was culturally divided between northern and southern regions. North Louisiana, whose white population descended from Anglo-Protestants, became culturally separate from the French Triangle parishes of South Louisianaƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚"composed primarily of Catholics who are culturally indebted to the French, Spanish, and French Canadian heritages of the region.

Author: James G. Dauphine
ISBN-10: 0940984792
ISBN-13: 9780940984790
Publisher: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1993
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d