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The Story of French New Orleans
Author | : Dianne Guenin-Lelle |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781496804877 |
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What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French socio-cultural dynamic left on the Crescent City. The migration of Acadians to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced its Francophone identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the Antebellum South, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The book analyzes these connections and the shared process of creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin. It suggests "French" New Orleans might be understood as a trope for unscripted "original" Creole social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests that an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially-bound and contested social order within the United States.
The French Quarter of New Orleans
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1617034975 |
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The author, a native of New Orleans, displays his passion for the "French Quarter" of the city in 106 color photographs highlighting Old World architecture, style, and history that has made this section of the city famous throughout the world.
Creole City
Author | : Nathalie Dessens |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813055237 |
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In Creole City, Nathalie Dessens opens a window onto antebellum New Orleans during a time of rapid expansion and dizzying change. The story—rooted in the Sainte-Gême Family Papers harbored at The Historic New Orleans Collection—follows the twenty-year correspondence of Jean Boze to Henri de Ste-Gême, both refugees from Saint-Domingue. Exploring parts of the city’s early nineteenth-century history that have previously been neglected, Dessens examines how New Orleans came to symbolize progress, adventure, and culture to so many. Through Boze’s letters, readers witness the convergence of new Americans and old colonial populations that sparked transformations in the economic, social, and political structures, as well as the Creolization of the city. Additionally, the letters depict transatlantic experiences at a time when New Orleans was a key hub of the Atlantic trade and so very distinct from other nineteenth-century American metropolises, such as New York and Philadelphia. Dessens’s portrayal of this seminal period is innovative and crucial to understanding of the city’s rich record and its larger role in American history.
The Second Battle of New Orleans
Author | : Richard O. Baumbach,William E. Borah |
Publsiher | : University of Louisiana |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1946160571 |
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Today, one can hardly imagine a visit to New Orleans without a stroll through its famous French Quarter (the Vieux Carre), but this now national historic landmark was at the center of a two-decades-battle that pitted politicians against preservationists. In 1946, as suburban sprawl increased, a massive roadway project was designed for the city of New Orleans, which included a forty-foot-high, ninety-foot-wide interstate highway be built through the French Quarter district, the city's oldest, and arguably most historic, neighborhood. The project was supported and pushed by politicians and business leaders around the city and state. Supplemented by a wealth of photographs and maps, Baumbach and Borah provide a well-documented account of the expressway controversy in all its twists and turns, its ambiguities, and its acrimony.
Fabulous Frenchtown
Author | : Ernest G. Vetter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : New Orleans (La.) |
ISBN | : MINN:31951001960943O |
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The Accidental City
Author | : Lawrence N. Powell |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2012-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674065444 |
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Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.
The World That Made New Orleans
Author | : Ned Sublette |
Publsiher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781569765135 |
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STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&” This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities.
My New Orleans Gone Away
Author | : Peter M. Wolf |
Publsiher | : Delphinium |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1883285569 |
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A memoir from the land planning and urban policy management authority, and sixth-generation member of an influential New Orleans family.