New Orleans And Urban Louisiana 1920 To Present

Author : Samuel Claude Shepherd
Publisher : Louisiana Purchase Bicentennia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans and Urban Louisiana: 1920 to present written by Samuel Claude Shepherd and published by Louisiana Purchase Bicentennia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the period from the 1920s to the present with topics such as geography, politics, economics, architecture, culture and more.

Author : Mary Lou Widmer
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589804012
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans, 1900 to 1920 written by Mary Lou Widmer and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways in which city leaders of early 1900s New Orleans tamed nature are described in a richly illustrated history that also recounts what the city's inhabitants were wearing and driving, where they were living, and how they whiled away idle time.

Author : Samuel Claude Shepherd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans and Urban Louisiana written by Samuel Claude Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Claude Shepherd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans and Urban Louisiana written by Samuel Claude Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).)
Publisher : innsbruck University Press
ISBN 13 : 3903122238
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and the City written by Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).) and published by innsbruck University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.

Author : Hilary Mc Laughlin-Stonham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789622247
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Slavery to Civil Rights written by Hilary Mc Laughlin-Stonham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and social culture. In New Orleans, the most populous city in the state, this was reflected in the conflict that arose on segregated streetcars that ran throughout the crescent city. This study chronologically surveys segregation on the streetcars from the antebellum period in which black stereotypes and justification for segregation were formed. It follows the political and social motivation for segregation through reconstruction to the integration of the streetcars and the white resistance in the 1950s while examining the changing political and social climate that evolved over the segregation era. It considers the shifting nature of white supremacy that took hold in New Orleans after the Civil War and how this came to be played out daily, in public, on the streetcars. The paternalistic nature of white supremacy is considered and how this was gradually replaced with an unassailable white supremacist atmosphere that often restricted the actions of whites, as well as blacks, and the effect that this had on urban transport. Streetcars became the 'theatres' for black resistance throughout the era and this survey considers the symbolic part they played in civil rights up to the present day.

Author : The National Academies
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309215307
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters written by The National Academies and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters are having an increasing effect on the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world. Every decade, property damage caused by natural disasters and hazards doubles or triples in the United States. More than half of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of a coast, and all Americans are at risk from such hazards as fires, earthquakes, floods, and wind. The year 2010 saw 950 natural catastrophes around the world--the second highest annual total ever--with overall losses estimated at $130 billion. The increasing impact of natural disasters and hazards points to increasing importance of resilience, the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events, at the individual , local, state, national, and global levels. Assessing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters reviews the effects of Hurricane Katrina and other natural and human-induced disasters on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi and to learn more about the resilience of those areas to future disasters. Topics explored in the workshop range from insurance, building codes, and critical infrastructure to private-sector issues, public health, nongovernmental organizations and governance. This workshop summary provides a rich foundation of information to help increase the nation's resilience through actionable recommendations and guidance on the best approaches to reduce adverse impacts from hazards and disasters.

Author : Louis Andrew Vyhnanek
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unorganized Crime written by Louis Andrew Vyhnanek and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores criminal activities in New Orleans during the Roaring Twenties.

Author : Walter Stern
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807169196
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Education in New Orleans written by Walter Stern and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow’s demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city’s education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960. This timely historical analysis reveals that public schools in New Orleans both suffered from and maintained the racial stratification that characterized urban areas for much of the twentieth century. Walter C. Stern begins his account with the mid-eighteenth-century kidnapping and enslavement of Marie Justine Sirnir, who eventually secured her freedom and played a major role in the development of free black education in the Crescent City. As Sirnir’s story and legacy illustrate, schools such as the one she envisioned were central to the black antebellum understanding of race, citizenship, and urban development. Black communities fought tirelessly to gain better access to education, which gave rise to new strategies by white civilians and officials who worked to maintain and strengthen the racial status quo, even as they conceded to demands from the black community for expanded educational opportunities. The friction between black and white New Orleanians continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, when conflicts over land and resources sharply intensified. Stern argues that the post-Reconstruction reorganization of the city into distinct black and white enclaves marked a new phase in the evolution of racial disparity: segregated schools gave rise to segregated communities, which in turn created structural inequality in housing that impeded desegregation’s capacity to promote racial justice. By taking a long view of the interplay between education, race, and urban change, Stern underscores the fluidity of race as a social construct and the extent to which the Jim Crow system evolved through a dynamic though often improvisational process. A vital and accessible history, Race and Education in New Orleans provides a comprehensive look at the ways the New Orleans school system shaped the city’s racial and urban landscapes.

Author : Mary Lou Widmer
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455609536
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans in the Thirties written by Mary Lou Widmer and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1989-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans in the Thirties offers a nostalgic view of life in New Orleans half a century ago through photographs and reminiscences. It was a time when Robert Maestri was mayor, the St. Charles streetcar made a complete loop, and the Pelicans won the Dixie Series in baseball. Moreover, it was a time when doctors made house calls and women donned gloves to go shopping. Fascinating period photographs accompany intimate and loving descriptions of the Crescent City of the thirties, capturing the mood and magic of that decade. This volume brings to life the New Orleans of the past and allows the reader to discover-or rediscover-the character of that time and place. The author's recollections will appeal to non-New Orleanians, that is, to anyone who grew up in America during the depression era. She recalls, for example, the leisurely pace of pre-television society in which radio held a powerfully unique role, as well as the headline fashions of the day and the cultural mores that now may seem quaint to many. Mary Lou Widmer, a native New Orleanian, is president of the South Louisiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America. She has written several articles for New Orleans publications, and is the author of Night Jasmine, Beautiful Crescent, and Lace Curtain . Widmer is also the author of New Orleans in the Twenties, New Orleans in the Forties, and New Orleans in the Fifties, all published by Pelican.