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Book Building Antebellum New Orleans

Download or read book Building Antebellum New Orleans written by Tara Dudley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning 2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast 2022 Best Book Prize, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans. The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres—free people of color—in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley re-creates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.

Book The Source

    Book Details:
  • Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
  • Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781593312770
  • Pages : 1000 pages

Download or read book The Source written by Loretto Dennis Szucs and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""

Book Red Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Eichholz
  • Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781593311667
  • Pages : 812 pages

Download or read book Red Book written by Alice Eichholz and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Book The Pirates Laffite

Download or read book The Pirates Laffite written by William C. Davis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Davis uncovers the truth about two men who made their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.

Book Louisiana History

Download or read book Louisiana History written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LLA Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louisiana Library Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book LLA Bulletin written by Louisiana Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Book  3rd edition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Eichholz
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 1618589687
  • Pages : 1753 pages

Download or read book Red Book 3rd edition written by Alice Eichholz and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 1753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essential to researchers of American records. This revised 3rd edition provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization. Whether you are looking for your ancestors in the northeastern states, the South, the West, or somewhere in the middle, ""Ancestry's Red Book has information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide. In short, the ""Red Book is simply the book that no genealogist can afford not to have. The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail. Unlike the federal census, state and territorial census were taken at different times and different questions were asked. Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how""

Book Race  Sex  and Social Order in Early New Orleans

Download or read book Race Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans written by Jennifer M. Spear and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes—poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality—New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer M. Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city’s construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most recent and respected scholarship on racial formation and interracial sex to explain why free people of color became a significant population in the early days of New Orleans and to show how authorities attempted to use concepts of race and social hierarchy to impose order on a decidedly disorderly society. She recounts and analyzes the major conflicts that influenced New Orleanian culture: legal attempts to impose racial barriers and social order, political battles over propriety and freedom, and cultural clashes over place and progress. At each turn, Spear’s narrative challenges the prevailing academic assumptions and supports her efforts to move exploration of racial formation away from cultural and political discourses and toward social histories. Strikingly argued, richly researched, and methodologically sound, this wide-ranging look at how choices about sex triumphed over established class systems and artificial racial boundaries supplies a refreshing contribution to the history of early Louisiana.

Book The Tio Family

Download or read book The Tio Family written by Charles E. Kinzer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mysterious Voodoo Queen  Marie Laveaux

Download or read book The Mysterious Voodoo Queen Marie Laveaux written by Ina J. Fandrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders.

Book The Spanish Presence in Louisiana  1763 1803

Download or read book The Spanish Presence in Louisiana 1763 1803 written by Gilbert C. Din and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1996 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masterless Mistresses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Clark
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0807839035
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Masterless Mistresses written by Emily Clark and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance and authority in seventeenth-century France, the New World was less welcoming. Emily Clark explores the transformations required of the Ursulines as their distinctive female piety collided with slave society, Spanish colonial rule, and Protestant hostility. The Ursulines gained prominence in New Orleans through the social services they provided--schooling, an orphanage, and refuge for abused and widowed women--which also allowed them a self-sustaining level of corporate wealth. Clark traces the conflicts the Ursulines encountered through Spanish colonial rule (1767-1803) and after the Louisiana Purchase, as Protestants poured into Louisiana and were dismayed to find a powerful community of self-supporting women and a church congregation dominated by African Americans. The unmarried nuns contravened both the patriarchal order of the slaveholding American South and the Protestant construction of femininity that supported it. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, Masterless Mistresses exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.

Book America  History and Life

Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Book National Genealogical Society Quarterly

Download or read book National Genealogical Society Quarterly written by National Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The African American Experience in Louisiana  From Africa to the Civil War

Download or read book The African American Experience in Louisiana From Africa to the Civil War written by Charles Vincent and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1999 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: