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Article: Voices from an American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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Voices from an American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760. Edited by Emily Clark. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 138. $25.00.)
The editor of this book is one among only a handful of recent historians committed to the study of colonial Louisiana. Standing on the exceptional shoulders of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Daniel Usher, Emily Clark proves that the study of French and Spanish Louisiana can be as innovative and brilliant as the voluminous canon of works related to British North America and the Southwestern Borderlands. Her acclaimed previous work stands as a guide for all those who wish ...