City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300, Paperback - Jason Berry

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Reducere. Celebrate 300 years of New Orleans history Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive...

Reducere. New Orleans is a city of beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious coup...

Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...

New Orleans is a city of beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious coup...

Reducere. ``Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us.`` -- Boston Globe ``A richly textured guide to the his...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally an...

Reducere. The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts--heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, sinners and saints. In this New Orleans, a serial...

Reducere. The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts--heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, sinners and saints. In this New Orleans, a serial...

Reducere. Before there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs. These masters of modern Cr...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Reducere. Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans, Hardcover

Reducere. Discover a serial killer you'll never forget Between 1918 to 1919 a serial killer ran rampant throughout New Orleans. His weapon of choice? The axe...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Reducere. The lump in my throat dissolves into tears. "They're going to take Noah away, Pete." "No judge will ever rule that a child should be taken away fro...

Home to the notorious 'Blue Book', which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light di...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America's most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of biza...

Reducere. With more than one thousand books on Hurricane Katrina, somehow not one work examines a collection of Crescent City calamity--until now. Here seven...

Reducere. Every New Orleanian knows Leah Chase's gumbo, but few realize that the Freedom Fighters gathered and strategized over bowls of that very dish. Or t...

Reducere. Based on the true story...Detective Colin Fitzgerald, only recently returned from World War I, with scars inside and out, is back in New Orleans an...

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It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppr...

Reducere. The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad t...

Reducere. Simon of New Orleans is a celebration of the exuberant, sumptuous, energetic work of the Artist synonymous with his adopted hometown. It's difficul...

Reducere. From award-winning author Yang Huang, My Good Son explores the power-and the cost-of parental love. A tailor in post-Tiananmen China, Mr. Cai has o...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Reducere. In this delightful cookbook, Natalie V. Scott has compiled savory recipes which have filled New Orleans kitchens with delicious aromas for more tha...

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles-and bicyclists-in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over ti...

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Reducere. New Orleans in the 1920's is a city of many faces. The gaiety of Mardi Gras is juxtaposed with the rampant corruption that earned New Orleans the n...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough an in-depth study of one of Louisiana's most important sugar plantations, Bouki Fait Gombo traces the impact of slavery on south...

Reducere. December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militar...

Reducere. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprise...

Many stories have been told about the Battle of New Orleans, but none by the drummer, Jordan Noble, whose rumble summoned Gen. Andrew Jackson's tro...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world...

Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): Diane C. McPhailNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 218 x 34Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows thes...

Reducere. This book offers a comprehensive literary history of New Orleans. It will be of great interest to graduates and scholars working on American Southe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Text by (Art/Photo Books): Jim FraiserPhotographer: West FreemanThere is no place in America like New Orleans's famed French Quarte...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Orleans: city of intrigue, supernatural secrets, and one enigmatic dragon. A deadly curse.... For 300 years, Gabriel Blakemore has s...

Reducere. The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek R...

Reducere. From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cultu...

Reducere. I'm Rebecca Hamilton, the founder and owner of a million-dollar bakery called Chick Boss Cake, the #1 bakery and dessert spot that all the locals i...

Experience a seldom-seen New York City with journalists and NYC natives Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller as they show you the 42 islands in this city...

The Mayor Married Who?Who would have thought that managing a city could be so funny? The Mayor Married Who? provides a fun insider's look at the da...

Reducere. When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born--the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a me...

This book offers an introduction to several of the foundational genres of New Orleans music including Second Line, Funk, Mardi Gras Indian Rhythms ...