Between Creoles and Yankees: The discursive representation of Colonial Louisiana in American history

French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-21

  Usner, Daniel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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