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Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remark

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Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy
1501700944, 9781501700941

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remark

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Wiseguys called him "the Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as &quo

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Chef Kevin Belton, a true Creole New Orleanian, dishes up the culinary history of his city with recipes that provide bot

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This text examines the myriad ways in which opposition groups across the Arab world have sought to coalesce into broader

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The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson l

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Explores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone city After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of p

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When New Orleanians ask "Where did you go to school?" they aren't asking what university you attended but

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