Occupied City: New Orleans Under the Federals 1862–1865 0813194458, 9780813194455

New Orleans: A Writer's City (Imagining Cities) 9781316512067, 9781009057493, 1316512061

The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last cent

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Condensed History of New Orleans: America's Most Interesting City 9781891053474

This anonymous tourist pamphlet written at the beginning of the 20th century covers the culture, history, architecture a

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Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City 9780520933842

"Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love,

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Fodor's New Orleans 9781640972834

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Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans 0807158259, 9780807158258

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected

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Spanish New Orleans: An Imperial City on the American Periphery, 1766-1803 0807174890, 9780807174890

John Eugene Rodriguez’s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the large

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The Story of French New Orleans : History of a Creole City [1 ed.] 9781496804907, 9781496804860

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing

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Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015 100019695X, 9781000196955

New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years,

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Secrets of New Orleans: A 1920s Sourcebook to the Crescent City (23114) 1568823029, 9781568823027

New Orleans is a city of many faces. The gaiety of Mardi Gras is juxtaposed with the rampant corruption that earned it t

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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans 1469622807, 978-1469622804

What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends so

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