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House That Sugarcane Built: The Louisiana Burguieres

House That Sugarcane Built: The Louisiana Burguieres

Onebane, Donna McGee

Paperback

Business BiographiesAgricultureRegional: South

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1496815866
ISBN13: 9781496815866
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: May 1 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguieres Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present.

When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugene D. Burguieres landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began. Seen through the lens of one family, this book traces the Burguieres from seventeenth-century France, to nineteenth- century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is also a rich portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so does the story of their family-owned sugar business, the J. M. Burguieres Company, as it plays a pivotal role in the expansion of the sugar industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba.

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