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Author : Lura Robinson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book It's an Old New Orleans Custom written by Lura Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters on the manners and customs, history and biography of the city.
Author : Arthur, Stanley Clisby
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455613731
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Old New Orleans written by Arthur, Stanley Clisby and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Emrich
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book It's an Old Wild West Custom written by Duncan Emrich and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andi Eaton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625851731
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book New Orleans Style written by Andi Eaton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than three hundred years, New Orleans style is not just sartorial but also venerable. A melting pot of cultures gives rise to the diverse fashion influences of French sophistication, Spanish exuberance and deep Creole roots. Classic trends like jazz style, the ebullient irreverence of Mardi Gras' festive fashion and seersucker's cool lines are quintessentially New Orleans. The local aesthetic established by the keen eyes at Maison Blanche and D.H. Holmes, master haberdashers at Rubensteins, milliners like Yvonne LaFleur and perfumers Hove Parfumeur formed a foundation on which the city's rising stars reinvigorate and build a new fashion capital. Join author and designer Andi Eaton and discover the Big Easy's stylish legacy and a new side of New Orleans.
Author : Doris Lanier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628254
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Absinthe--The Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century written by Doris Lanier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an alcohol content sometimes as high as 80 percent, absinthe was made by mixing the leaves of wormwood with other plants such as angelica root, fennel, coriander, hyssop, marjoram and anise for flavor. The result was a bitter, potent drink that became a major social, medical and political phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; its popularity was mainly in France, but also in other parts of Europe and the United States, particularly in New Orleans. Absinthe produced a sense of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, similar to the effect of cocaine and opium, but was addictive and caused a rapid loss of mental and physical faculties. Despite that, Picasso, Manet, Rimbaud, Van Gogh, Degas and Wilde were among those devoted to its consumption and produced writings and art influenced by the drink. This work provides a history of "the green fairy", a study of its use and abuse, an exploration of the tremendous social problems (not unlike the cocaine problems of this century) it caused, and an examination of the extent to which the lives of talented young writers and artists of the period became caught up in the absinthe craze.
Author : Emily Epstein Landau
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807150169
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Spectacular Wickedness written by Emily Epstein Landau and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual excess. This notorious neighborhood, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city infamous for both prostitution and interracial intimacy. In particular, Lulu White -- a mixed-race prostitute and madam -- created an image of herself and marketed it profitably to sell sex with light-skinned women to white men of means. In Spectacular Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices. Storyville's founding was envisioned as a reform measure, an effort by the city's business elite to curb and contain prostitution -- namely, to segregate it. In 1890, the Louisiana legislature passed the Separate Car Act, which, when challenged by New Orleans's Creoles of color, led to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, constitutionally sanctioning the enactment of "separate but equal" laws. The concurrent partitioning of both prostitutes and blacks worked only to reinforce Storyville's libidinous license and turned sex across the color line into a more lucrative commodity. By looking at prostitution through the lens of patriarchy and demonstrating how gendered racial ideologies proved crucial to the remaking of southern society in the aftermath of the Civil War, Landau reveals how Storyville's salacious and eccentric subculture played a significant role in the way New Orleans constructed itself during the New South era.
Author : Edwin Valentine Mitchell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book It's an Old State of Maine Custom written by Edwin Valentine Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalie A. Zacek
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807183237
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Thoroughbred Nation written by Natalie A. Zacek and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the colonial era to the beginning of the twentieth century, horse racing was by far the most popular sport in America. Great numbers of Americans and overseas visitors flocked to the nation’s tracks, and others avidly followed the sport in both general-interest newspapers and specialized periodicals. Thoroughbred Nation offers a detailed yet panoramic view of thoroughbred racing in the United States, following the sport from its origins in colonial Virginia and South Carolina to its boom in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and then from its post–Civil War rebirth in New York City and Saratoga Springs to its opulent mythologization of the “Old South” at Louisville’s Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. Natalie A. Zacek introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters, from “plungers” such as Virginia plantation owner William Ransom Johnson (known as the “Napoleon of the Turf”) and Wall Street financier James R. Keene (who would wager a fortune on the outcome of a single competition) to the jockeys, trainers, and grooms, most of whom were African American. While their names are no longer known, their work was essential to the sport. Zacek also details the careers of remarkable, though scarcely remembered, horses, whose achievements made them as famous in their day as more recent equine celebrities such as Seabiscuit or Secretariat. Based upon exhaustive research in print and visual sources from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, Thoroughbred Nation will be of interest both to those who love the sport of horse racing for its own sake and to those who are fascinated by how this pastime reflects and influences American identities.
Author : Samuel Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A History of the U.S. Customhouse at New Orleans written by Samuel Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Clisby Arthur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Old New Orleans written by Stanley Clisby Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 143990622X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Jookin' written by Katrina Hazzard-Gordon and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American culture.
Author : Survey of Federal Archives in Louisiana
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the U.S. Custom House, New Orleans written by Survey of Federal Archives in Louisiana and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony J. Stanonis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807183210
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book New Orleans Pralines written by Anthony J. Stanonis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creole praline arrived in New Orleans with the migration of formerly enslaved people fleeing Louisiana plantations after the Civil War. Black women street vendors made a livelihood by selling a range of homemade foods, including pralines, to Black dockworkers and passersby. The praline offered a path to financial independence, and even its ingredients spoke of a history of Black ingenuity: an enslaved horticulturist played a key role in domesticating the pecan and creating the grafted tree that would form the basis of Louisiana’s pecan orchards. By the 1880s, however, white New Orleans writers such as Grace King and Henry Castellanos had begun to recast the history of the praline in a nostalgic mode that harkened back to the prewar South. In their telling, the praline was brought to New Orleans by an aristocratic refugee of the French Revolution. Black street vendors were depicted not as innovative entrepreneurs but as loyal servants still faithful to their former enslavers. The rise of cultivated, shelled, and cheaply bought pecans—as opposed to the foraged pecans that early praline sellers had depended on—allowed better-resourced white women to move into the praline-selling market, especially as tourism emerged as a key New Orleans industry after the 1910s. Indeed, the praline became central to the marketing of New Orleans. Conventions often hired Black women to play the “praline mammy” role for out-of-towners, while stores sold pralines with mammy imagery, in boxes designed to look like cotton bales. After World War II, pralines went national with items like praline-flavored ice cream (1950s) and praline liqueur (1980s). Yet as the civil rights struggle persisted, the imagery of the praline mammy was recognized as an offensive caricature. As it uncovers the history of a sweet dessert made of sugar and pecans, New Orleans Pralines tells a fascinating story of Black entrepreneurship, toxic white nostalgia, and the rise of tourism in the Crescent City.
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1949-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting His Annual Report on the State of the Finances written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosary O'Neill
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846096
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book New Orleans Carnival Krewes written by Rosary O'Neill and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The traditions, the secret societies and the history of how New Orleans and Mardi Gras came to be as integral to each other as red beans and rice” (Blogcritics). New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras. Both evoke the parades, the beads, the costumes, the food—the pomp and circumstance. The carnival krewes are the backbone of this Big Easy tradition. Every year, different krewes put on extravagant parties and celebrations to commemorate the beginning of the Lenten season. Historic krewes like Comus, Rex, and Zulu that date back generations are intertwined with the greater history of New Orleans itself. Today, new krewes are inaugurated and widen a once exclusive part of New Orleans society. Through careful and detailed research of over three hundred sources, including fifty interviews with members of these organizations, author and New Orleans native Rosary O’Neill explores this storied institution, its antebellum roots and its effects in the twenty-first century. Includes photos! “[A] spirited and richly illustrated account.” —New York Theatre Wire
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Customs Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
