New Orleans 1867

Author : Gary Van Zante
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858942100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans 1867 written by Gary Van Zante and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together all the surviving photographs--126 of the original 150--from the remarkable series entitled "La Nouvelle Orleans et ses environs, taken of New Orleans in 1867 by the city's most important photographer, Theodore Lilienthal. Representing the first municipally sponsored photographic survey of any american city, and only recently rediscovered, the photographs--of every aspect of the city, from urban palaces and stately mansions to factories and asylums--were exhibited at the Paris World Exposition in 1867, before being formally presented to Napoleon III, Emperor of France from 1852 to 1871. This book places the photographs in the context of contemporary photographic practice, nineteenth-century city building and urban iconography, and of the need for reconstruction and economic renewal in the South following the devastation of the American Civil War. lavishly produced and engagingly written, it will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the United States, the history of photography and the development of the modern city.

Author : Henry Rightor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana, Giving a Description of the Natural Advantages, Natural History ... Settlement, Indians, Creoles, Municipal and Military History, Mercantile and Commercial Interests, Banking, Transportation, Struggles Against High Water, the Press, Educational ... Etc written by Henry Rightor and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ned Sublette
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569765138
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World That Made New Orleans written by Ned Sublette and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gilles Vandal
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Orleans Riot of 1866 written by Gilles Vandal and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social, political, and economic forces that interacted to produce the most notable of the South's Reconstruction riots.

Author : Irene S. Di Maio
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131466
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gerstäcker's Louisiana written by Irene S. Di Maio and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global traveler and adventurer, the German author Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816--1872) first arrived in Louisiana in March 1838, paddling the waterways leading from the wilds of the northwestern part of the state near Shreveport south to cosmopolitan New Orleans. He returned to the state in 1842, living for a year in the areas of Bayou Sara, St. Francisville, and Pointe Coupée -- then considered the most beautiful garden and plantation land along the Mississippi River. In 1867 he briefly visited Louisiana again, observing the devastation wrought by the Civil War and the turmoil of Reconstruction. No mere armchair tourist, Gerstäcker fully engaged himself in exploring Louisiana -- its landscapes, peoples, and Peculiar Institution. He was in the unique position of being both an insider and an outsider, and his sojourns in the state served as the basis for travel books, short stories, and novels. Gerstäcker was a remarkable raconteur and a highly popular author. During his lifetime and beyond, his writings conveyed the tenor of southern life to a German-speaking audience. Now, compiled and translated into English by Irene S. Di Maio, they offer a window on nineteenth-century Louisiana across several decades of growth and upheaval.Gerstäcker's aim as a writer was to inform and entertain, especially through humor, drama, and suspense. His works -- including his fiction -- sustain an almost ethnographic level of detail. The stories, travel sketches, and novel excerpts included here comment on slavery and its aftermath, ethnic and racial diversity, transcultural relations, and immigration and multilingualism. Gerstäcker's impressions of Louisiana remain relevant and deeply engaging

Author : James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130292
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Absolute Massacre written by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots rang out, and within minutes a riot erupted with unrestrained fury. When it was over, at least forty-eight men—an overwhelming majority of them black—lay dead and more than two hundred had been wounded. In An Absolute Massacre, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., examines the events surrounding the confrontation and offers a compelling look at the racial tinderbox that was the post-Civil War South.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Riots - Report of the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots, 39th Congress, 2nd Session, 1867 written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Head Coleman
Publisher : New York, W. H. Coleman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs written by William Head Coleman and published by New York, W. H. Coleman. This book was released on 1885 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marion Southwood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781479107513
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty and Booty written by Marion Southwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1867, this is the history of when U.S. General Butler controlled New Orleans, Louisiana during the Civil War. Written by a citizen of New Orleans.

Author : Jean-Charles Houzeau
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080716724X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune written by Jean-Charles Houzeau and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New Orleans in 1857, he was disturbed that America, founded on the principle of freedom, still tolerated the institution of slavery. In late 1864, he became managing editor of the New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper published in the United States. Ardently sympathetic to the plight of Louisiana’s black population and reveling in the fact that his dark complexion led many people to assume he was black himself, Houzeau passionately embraced his role as the Tribune’s editor and principal writer. My Passage at the New Orleans “Tribune,” first published in Belgium in 1872, is Houzeau’s memoir of the four years he spent as both observer and participant in the drama of Reconstruction. Houzeau records the efforts of New Orleans’s free blacks to secure their civil rights and to assume as well the cause of the newly freed slaves. With a scientist’s keen and sensitive eye, he observes the turmoil of Reconstruction in Louisiana and recalls the per-sonalities of the black leaders, the tensions within the black community, and his own day-to-day struggle to make the Tribune a nationally respected vehicle for the advancement of black rights and equality. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the New Orleans Tribune as a source for both southern and African American history. My Passage at the New Orleans “Tribune,” meticulously edited and annotated by David C. Rankin, offers a unique firsthand account of the newspaper’s operation and crusade, written by the energetic and dedicated man who guided it to prominence.