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Reducere. No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing ActionIllustrator: Sharika MahdiSamaria and her friends like everything about their clubho...

DescriptionMore than 100 recipes, stories, and wine pairings from New Orleans' chef Tenney Flynn of GW Fins restaurant. Delicious recipes and tips ...

Reducere. In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened ...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksAuthor(s): Eleonora RohlandNumber of pages: 252Collection: Environment in History: International PerspectivesPublication d...

Reducere. The tombs and graves of the St. Louis Cemeteries rise from the ground, creating labyrinthine memorials aptly dubbed "cities of the dead." Most are ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: S. E. SchlosserAuthor: Paul G. HoffmanPull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostl...

Reducere. The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats from Louis Armstrong and D...

Reducere. For hundreds of years in Louisiana, lullabies were hummed, prayers were called, opera was performed, la-las were danced, and work and carnival song...

Many black neighborhoods in New Orleans are perceived by outsiders as being areas of decay. However, to photographer Michael P. Smith, in these nei...

Reducere. "Brimming with romance of 200 years, New Orleans merits the right to be called America's Most Interesting City. The romance lingers on through the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThere is no more compelling nor more spiritual city than New Orleans. The city's Roman Catholic roots and its blended French, Spanish, C...

Reducere. The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city's most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have been focused on architectural ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya must track down a killer who strikes in the holiest of places, in this gripping thriller by Number One bes...

Reducere. They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in A...

Reducere. The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans and other Allied Families including: Allain, Bonneval, Bringier, Chiapella, Coudrain, Dalcou...

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish al...

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...

DescriptionAfter Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding region in 2005, the city debated whether to press on with Mardi Gras ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray Celestin"This thriller, which blends voodoo, gangsters and jazz into an intoxicating mix, is based on a true story."--S...

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. The Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans's longstanding drinki...

Reducere. N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature is, quite simply, the most comprehensive collection of the literature of New Orleans ever. Designed a...

Reducere. Two manuscripts in one book: Hoodoo: Unlocking the Secret Power of Rootwork, Folk Magic, Conjuration, Witchcraft, and MojoVoodoo: Unlocking the Hid...

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. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

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...

DescriptionA modern instructional with 120 recipes for classic New Orleans cooking, from James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur Justin Dev...

Reducere. Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for ...

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

Reducere. The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's ``forgotten war`` of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against ...

Reducere. New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras. Both evoke the parades, the beads, the costumes, the food--the pomp and circumstance. The ca...

DescriptionConsummate hostess and lifestyle expert Julia Reed shares her favorite New Orleans recipes and ways to create parties that exude this ci...

Reducere. New Orleans has a reputation as a home for creatures of the night. Popular books, movies and television shows have cemented the city's connection t...

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. DescriptionApproached as a wellspring of cultural authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetu...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

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Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflect...

Reducere. A taste of New Orleans--right in your own kitchenJust like a big bowl of gumbo, New Orleans is a melting pot of cultures and flavors. Its vibrant c...

Reducere. Every year on March 19, Roman Catholic churches and households in and around New Orleans celebrate St. Joseph's Day. As centerpieces of these celeb...

Publisher: Red Wheel/WeiserAuthor(s): Denise (Denise Alvarado) AlvaradoNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover ty...

Beneath the carefree atmosphere of Mardi Gras, something very sinister is going on in the intriguing new Quentin Archer mystery. Three murders so f...

Reducere. Mardi Gras festivities don't end after the parades roll through the streets; rather, a large part of the celebration continues unseen by the genera...

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. Mix up more than 100 of the Big Easy's most celebrated and innovative cocktails, and immerse yourself in the culture and history of the South's mos...

Reducere. This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were ...

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Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration ...

Dive into the heart of New Orleans and whip up classic Cajun and Creole comfort food in your own kitchen and laissez les bons temps rouler. In Trem...

Reducere. From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of a serial killer. The story has been the subject of short stories, novels, and the televisio...

Reducere. More Cajun.Get your copy of the best and most unique Cajun recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cookin...

It's said that New Orleans' "culture doesn't come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets." It is a proud city with interwoven stories of...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

Reducere. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Sp...

Explores the ups and downs of one of the most successful girl groups of the early 1960s. Telling their story for the first time, in their own words...

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

DescriptionWhen a fellow cop is shot dead, homicide detective Quentin Archer suspects that there's far more to this case than meets the eye. One of...

Reducere. For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language ...

Reducere. It was in a Nazi prison camp during World War II that 22-year-old Hans Rookmaaker read the Bible and became a Christian. It was there too he receiv...

Reducere. No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. J...

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. DescriptionAnne Rice Unauthorized Tours takes you to the places Anne Rice mentioned in the Mayfair Witches and Vampire chronicles. The book has ove...

While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that Germans, Austri...

Reducere. After a 1, 200 mile solo canoe trip from Grand Portage, Minnesota to Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Jerry Pushcar wanted to see more of North America's unta...

Reducere. New Orleans--the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du Monde and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath the indulgenc...

Reducere. Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom strugg...