New Orleans and the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Orleans and the World write by Nancy Dixon. This book was released on 2018-11-08. New Orleans and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its foundation in 1718, New Orleans has captured the imagination of people from around the world. Exiled immigrants, creative dreamers, fiery revolutionaries, and joyful vacationers journey to the city to experience its intoxicating mixture of cultures. The Crescent City is both cosmopolitan and distinctly American, a gumbo pot filled with ingredients from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe that feeds new arrivals from every corner of the earth. New Orleans & The World: The Tricentennial Anthology commemorates the city¿s 300th anniversary by exploring the roles New Orleans has played on the global stage, and the ways that events and people from outside the city have fundamentally shaped its dynamic culture.
The World That Made New Orleans
The World That Made New Orleans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World That Made New Orleans write by Ned Sublette. This book was released on 2008-01-01. The World That Made New Orleans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal write by Emily Clark. This book was released on 2019-12-11. New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were founded during the early French imperial expansion of the Atlantic world. Both became important port cities of their own continents, the Atlantic world as a whole, and the African diaspora. The slave trade not only played a crucial role in the demographic and economic growth of Saint-Louis and New Orleans, but also directly connected the two cities. The Company of the Indies ran the Senegambia slave-trading posts and the Mississippi colony simultaneously from 1719 to 1731. By examining the linked histories of these cities over the longue durée, this edited collection shows the crucial role they played in integrating the peoples of the Atlantic world. The essays also illustrate how the interplay of imperialism, colonialism, and slaving that defined the early Atlantic world operated and evolved differently on both sides of the ocean. The chapters in part one, “Negotiating Slavery and Freedom,” highlight the centrality of the institution of slavery in the urban societies of Saint-Louis and New Orleans from their foundation to the second half of the nineteenth century. Part two, “Elusive Citizenship,” explores how the notions of nationality, citizenship, and subjecthood—as well as the rights or lack of rights associated with them—were mobilized, manipulated, or negotiated at key moments in the history of each city. Part three, “Mythic Persistence,” examines the construction, reproduction, and transformation of myths and popular imagination in the colonial and postcolonial cities. It is here, in the imagined past, that New Orleans and Saint-Louis most clearly mirror one another. The essays in this section offer two examples of how historical realities are simplified, distorted, or obliterated to minimize the violence of the cities’ common slave and colonial past in order to promote a romanticized present. With editors from three continents and contributors from around the world, this work is truly an international collaboration.
Spirit World
Spirit World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spirit World write by . This book was released on 1992. Spirit World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photos of Spiritual Church possession trances, faith healings, social club marches, jazz funerals and more.
Beautiful Crescent
Beautiful Crescent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beautiful Crescent write by Joan Garvey. This book was released on 2012-11-05. Beautiful Crescent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brief history for New Orleans' greatest admirers. This concise history of the Crescent City contains chapters covering the Mississippi River, the city's founding, European rule, and more, updated with expanded jazz and African American sections. It is a must for every library and home, and for those who love New Orleans and its rich history.
