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Building the Land of Dreams

Author : Eberhard L. Faber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180709
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Building the Land of Dreams written by Eberhard L. Faber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, Building the Land of Dreams is the narrative biography of a fascinating city at the most crucial turning point in its history. Eberhard Faber tells the vivid story of how American rule forced New Orleans through a vast transition: from the ordered colonial world of hierarchy and subordination to the fluid, unpredictable chaos of democratic capitalism. The change in authority, from imperial Spain to Jeffersonian America, transformed everything. As the city’s diverse people struggled over the terms of the transition, they built the foundations of a dynamic, contentious hybrid metropolis. Faber describes the vital individuals who played a role in New Orleans history: from the wealthy creole planters who dreaded the influx of revolutionary ideas, to the American arrivistes who combined idealistic visions of a new republican society with selfish dreams of quick plantation fortunes, to Thomas Jefferson himself, whose powerful democratic vision for Louisiana eventually conflicted with his equally strong sense of realpolitik and desire to strengthen the American union. Revealing how New Orleans was formed by America’s greatest impulses and ambitions, Building the Land of Dreams is an inspired exploration of one of the world’s most iconic cities.

Dreaming of New Orleans

Author : Gretchen Everin
Publisher : Commonwealth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781641941327
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming of New Orleans written by Gretchen Everin and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counting is Fun, and You'll Love Counting Around New Orleans, Louisiana!

City of a Million Dreams

Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146964715X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book City of a Million Dreams written by Jason Berry and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.

Voodoo Dreams

Author : Jewell P. Rhodes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312119317
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Voodoo Dreams written by Jewell P. Rhodes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marie Laveau, a legendary nineteenth-century New Orleans voodoo queen.

Dreaming in the Bone Boat

Author : Raymond "Moose" Jackson
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
ISBN 13 : 9781608012336
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming in the Bone Boat written by Raymond "Moose" Jackson and published by University of New Orleans Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreaming in the Bone Boat, Raymond Moose Jackson maps his worlds and roles. Anchored in New Orleans but wide-ranging, these poems chart the course of a rowdy pilgrim at the crossroads of blue-collar doldrums, punk epiphanies and the disappearing wetlands of dream. Jackson is a lyrical voyager walking a rebel road to end up wild-eyed in the fields of human compassion [feeling?], and we are along for the ride. With phrasings that land with the musical smack of destiny, Moose restores us to a living world where the mundane is magical and all of life is celebrated.

Dreams in the New Century

Author : Gary R. Mormino
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081307231X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dreams in the New Century written by Gary R. Mormino and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award A leading Florida historian explores one of the state’s most consequential eras It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida’s future. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history. Following Mormino’s milestone work Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, which details the dynamic history of Florida from 1950 to 2000, Dreams in the New Century explores the state’s tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush v. Gore election, 9/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the election of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed the country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida celebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the “Stand-Your-Ground” gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered nonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its importance in the nation. As Mormino shows, Florida is a place of deep conflicts—North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, growth and conservation—with histories that can be traced back centuries. In 2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a “Big Bang” that will continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this crucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies of a state the world struggles to understand. Dreams in the New Century unravels Florida’s complicated recent history in a gripping, informative, and fascinating narrative.

Dream State

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033766
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Dream State written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In prose which somehow manages to be both precise and hallucinatory at the same time, Moira Crone gives us a luminous Louisiana of her own. Each of these (eight) wonderful tales is as complex as any novel, as vivid and fast and surprising as your life".--Lee Smith, author of "Oral History".

The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook

Author : Kenaz Filan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777985
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook written by Kenaz Filan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the practices, tools, and rituals of New Orleans Voodoo as well as the many cultural influences at its origins • Includes recipes for magical oils, instructions for candle workings, and directions to create gris-gris bags and Voodoo dolls to attract love, money, justice, and healing and for retribution • Explores the major figures of New Orleans Voodoo, including Marie Laveau and Dr. John • Exposes the diverse ethnic influences at the core of Voodoo, from the African Congo to Catholic immigrants from Italy, France, and Ireland One of America’s great native-born spiritual traditions, New Orleans Voodoo is a religion as complex, free-form, and beautiful as the jazz that permeates this steamy city of sin and salvation. From the French Quarter to the Algiers neighborhood, its famed vaulted cemeteries to its infamous Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans cannot escape its rich Voodoo tradition, which draws from a multitude of ethnic sources, including Africa, Latin America, Sicily, Ireland, France, and Native America. In The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook, initiated Vodou priest Kenaz Filan covers the practices, tools, and rituals of this system of worship as well as the many facets of its origins. Exploring the major figures of New Orleans Voodoo, such as Marie Laveau and Dr. John, as well as Creole cuisine and the wealth of musical inspiration surrounding the Mississippi Delta, Filan examines firsthand documents and historical records to uncover the truth behind many of the city’s legends and to explore the oft-discussed but little-understood practices of the root doctors, Voodoo queens, and spiritual figures of the Crescent City. Including recipes for magical oils, instructions for candle workings, methods of divination, and even directions to create gris-gris bags, mojo hands, and Voodoo dolls, Filan reveals how to call on the saints and spirits of Voodoo for love, money, retribution, justice, and healing.

Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi

Author : Christopher Maurer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604734591
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi written by Christopher Maurer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Shearwater Pottery and the Anderson family's artful enterprise

Hello, New Orleans!

Author : Martha Zschock
Publisher : Commonwealth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781933212630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Hello, New Orleans! written by Martha Zschock and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to New Orleans Parent and child pelicans take a short tour of the Crescent City in best-selling author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock's Hello board book series for children. From the French Quarter to the Garden District, along the Mississippi and across Lake Ponchartrain, join the pelicans as they listen to music at Preservation Hall, celebrate Mardi Gras, and eat jambalaya and gumbo. Visit the Audubon Zoo and City Park, ride a St. Charles Avenue streetcar, and cheer the Saints. Along the way take a swamp tour, visit a plantation, and even ride on a steamboat For ages 2-5. Made in the USA.

Why New Orleans Matters

Author : Tom Piazza
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062447424
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Why New Orleans Matters written by Tom Piazza and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Piazza's award-winning portrait of a city in crisis, with a new preface from the author, ten years after. Ten years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the disaster that followed, promises were made, forgotten, and renewed. What would become of New Orleans in the years ahead? How would this city and its people recover—and what meaning would its story have, for America and the world? In Why New Orleans Matters, first published only months after the disaster, award-winning author and longtime New Orleans resident Tom Piazza illuminates the storied culture and still-evolving future of this great and vital American metropolis. Piazza evokes the sensuous textures of the city that gave us jazz music, Creole cooking, and a unique style of living; he examines the city's undercurrents of corruption and racism, and explains how its people endure and transcend them. And, perhaps most important, he bears witness to the city's spirit: its grace and beauty, resilience and soul. In the preface to this new edition, Piazza considers how far the city has come in the decade since Katrina, as well as the challenges it still faces—and reminds us that people in threatened communities across America have much to learn from New Orleans' disaster and astonishing recovery.

Snowball Rainbow

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990409311
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Snowball Rainbow written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dreaming Impossible Dreams

Author : E. J. Ourso
Publisher : Acadian House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780925417435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming Impossible Dreams written by E. J. Ourso and published by Acadian House Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the rags-to-riches story of multi-millionaire philanthropist E.J. Ourso of Donaldsonville, Louisiana. He is the former owner of Security Industrial Insurance, dozens of funeral homes and related services. This autobiography reveals how Ourso acquired 56 businesses in 48 years the first 25 with no money down. A testament to the effectiveness of the American free enterprise system, the book reveals Oursos secrets to the acquisition of wealth. These include not only business strategies but also personal qualities such as perseverance, frugality, imagination, and belief in the worthiness of ones endeavor. He also cites Divine Providence and the constant support of a loyal spouse.

Remember to Dream, Ebere

Author : Cynthia Erivo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316496155
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Remember to Dream, Ebere written by Cynthia Erivo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A girl dreams of a rocket ship, and her mother encourages her to follow her big, bright, bold dream"--

Oswald in New Orleans

Author : Harold Weisberg
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628735201
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Oswald in New Orleans written by Harold Weisberg and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Weisberg was foremost among the early trailblazers who saw the inadequacy of the Warren Report’s solution to the crime of the century. He tirelessly petitioned the government and used the courts to force release of withheld documents, and wrote dozens of books and manuscripts on the subject. Oswald in New Orleans focuses on the strange 1963 summer during which Lee Harvey Oswald was in New Orleans, where his apparent “lone nut” pro-Castro activities have puzzled researchers for many years. This book discusses the many odd stories and colorful personalities of the Oswald–New Orleans scene: Dean Andrews, David Ferrie, Sylvia Odio, Orest Pena, Carlos Bringuier, Loran Hall, and others. Published in the early days of the ill-fated Garrison investigation, this book remains an important analysis of those stories and persons. Taken in the context of Weisberg’s numerous books on the subject, Oswald’s time in New Orleans brings clarity to the events that would follow. Originally published in 1967, Oswald in New Orleans is no less the startling and shocking narrative today than it was when first released, and the painstakingly thorough investigative research and analysis that Weisberg has conducted makes his work essential to understanding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Punished for Dreaming

Author : Bettina L. Love
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250280397
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Punished for Dreaming written by Bettina L. Love and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER “I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education ‘reform’ in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream.” —Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow, Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.