Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: Jefferson Parish (Gretna): Series 1, Police jury minutes. (13 v. in 14)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: Jefferson Parish (Gretna): Series 1, Police jury minutes. (13 v. in 14)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Library Accessions
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The West Bank of Greater New Orleans
Author: Richard CampanellaPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Winner of the SESAH Book Award The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city’s inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad terminal, train manufacturer, and even livestock hub. At one time it was the Gulf South’s St. Louis, boasting a diversified industrial sector as well as a riverine, mercantilist, and agricultural economy. Today the mostly suburban West Bank is proud but not pretentious, pleasant if not prominent, and a distinct, affordable alternative to the more famous neighborhoods of the East Bank. Richard Campanella is the first to examine the West Bank holistically, as a legitimate subregion with its own story to tell. No other part of greater New Orleans has more diverse yet deeply rooted populations: folks who speak in local accents, who exhibit longstanding cultural traits, and, in some cases, who maintain family ownership of lands held since antebellum times—even as immigrants settle here in growing numbers. Campanella demonstrates that West Bankers have had great agency in their own place-making, and he challenges the notion that their story is subsidiary to a more important narrative across the river. The West Bank of Greater New Orleans is not a traditional history, nor a cultural history, but rather a historical geography, a spatial explanation of how the West Bank’s landscape formed: its terrain, environment, land use, jurisdictions, waterways, industries, infrastructure, neighborhoods, and settlement patterns, past and present. The book explores the drivers, conditions, and power structures behind those landscape transformations, using custom maps, aerial images, photographic montages, and a detailed historical timeline to help tell that complex geographical story. As Campanella shows, there is no “greater New Orleans” without its cross-river component. The West Bank is an essential part of this remarkable metropolis.
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: Police jury minutes. (6 v. )
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Library Accessions
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana, No. 26, Jefferson Parish (Gretna)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: St. Bernard Parish (St. Bernard): Series 1, Police jury minutes. (6 v.)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Swapping Stories
Author: Carl LindahlPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496800826
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews—whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.