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Book List of Works Relating to City Charters  Ordinances  and Collected Documents

Download or read book List of Works Relating to City Charters Ordinances and Collected Documents written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bourbon Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Campanella
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2014-03-05
  • ISBN : 0807155071
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book Bourbon Street written by Richard Campanella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a year. A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during the colonial period through three tumultuous centuries, arriving at the world-famous entertainment strip of today. Clearly written and carefully researched, Campanella’s book interweaves world events—from the Louisiana Purchase to World War II to Hurricane Katrina—with local and national characters, ranging from presidents to showgirls, to explain how Bourbon Street became an intriguing and singular artifact, uniquely informative of both New Orleans’s history and American society. While offering a captivating historical-geographical panorama of Bourbon Street, Campanella also presents a contemporary microview of the area, describing the population, architecture, and local economy, and shows how Bourbon Street operates on a typical night. The fate of these few blocks in the French Quarter is played out on a larger stage, however, as the internationally recognized brands that Bourbon Street merchants and the city of New Orleans strive to promote both clash with and complement each other. An epic narrative detailing the influence of politics, money, race, sex, organized crime, and tourism, Bourbon Street: A History ultimately demonstrates that one of the most well-known addresses in North America is more than the epicenter of Mardi Gras; it serves as a battleground for a fundamental dispute over cultural authenticity and commodification.

Book The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans

Download or read book The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans written by New Orleans (La.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Slaughterhouse Cases

Download or read book The Slaughterhouse Cases written by Ronald M. Labbé and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century New Orleans was a sanitation night-mare, with the city's many slaughterhouses dumping animal remains into neighboring backwaters. When Louisiana finally authorized a monopoly slaughterhouse to bring about sanitation reform, many butchers felt disenfranchised from their livelihoods. Framing their case as an infringement of fundamental rights protected by the new amendment, they flooded the lower courts with nearly 300 suits. The surviving cases that reached the U.S. Supreme Court pitted the butchers' right-to-labor against the state's "police power" to regulate public health. The result was a controversial and long-debated decision that for the first time addressed the meaning the import of the Fourteenth Amendment."

Book Necropolis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Olivarius
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 0674241053
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Necropolis written by Kathryn Olivarius and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: A rising necropolis -- Patriotic fever -- Danse macabre -- Immunocapital -- Public health, private acclimation -- Denial, delusion, and disunion -- Incumbent arrogance -- Epilogue: Fever and folly.

Book Civic Wars

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  • Author : Mary P. Ryan
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1997-06-16
  • ISBN : 9780520922082
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Civic Wars written by Mary P. Ryan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-06-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the nineteenth-century city in this ambitious retelling of a key period of American political and social history. Basing her analysis on three quite different cities—New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco—Ryan illustrates how city spaces were used, understood, and fought over by a dazzling variety of social groups and political forces. She finds that the democratic exuberance America enjoyed in the 1820s and 1840s was irrevocably damaged by the Civil War. Civic life rebounded after the War but was, in Ryan's words, "less public, less democratic, and more visibly scarred by racial bigotry." Ryan's analysis is played out on three different levels—the spatial, the ceremonial, and the political. As she follows the decline of informal democracy from the age of Jackson to the heyday of industrial capitalism, she finds the roots of America's resilient democratic culture in the vigorous, often belligerent urban conflicts that found expression in the social movements, riots, celebrations, and other events that punctuated daily life in these urban centers. With its insightful comparisons, meticulous research, and graceful narrative, this study illustrates the ways in which American cities of the nineteenth century were as full of cultural differences and as fractured by social and economic changes as any metropolis today.

Book Traffic Laws Commentary

Download or read book Traffic Laws Commentary written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sanitary Code of the State of Louisiana and Abstracts from the Laws of Louisiana Relating to Health and Sanitation as Revised January  1909

Download or read book The Sanitary Code of the State of Louisiana and Abstracts from the Laws of Louisiana Relating to Health and Sanitation as Revised January 1909 written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louisiana Reports

Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Corporate City

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  • Author : Leonard P. Curry
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1997-05-21
  • ISBN : 031302989X
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Corporate City written by Leonard P. Curry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-05-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins the comparative study of U.S. urban development during the first half of the 19th century. Breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, its survey and comparisons of early urban politics is without parallel. The study is based on a thorough examination of fifteen cities—Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Charleston, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis, and Washington. This group of cities—the fifteen largest in 1850—provides a good mix of northern and southern, eastern and western, old and new, and fast- and slow-growing urban centers. This volume deals with the city as a corporate entity and contains chapters on urban governmental structures, government finance, politics and elections, urban political leadership, the city plan and city planning, intergovernmental relations, and urban mercantilism.

Book The Central Law Journal

Download or read book The Central Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list".

Book Slavery in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Morgan
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780820327914
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Slavery in America written by Kenneth Morgan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War. The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question, followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter bibliography. Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy, slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology, abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.

Book Report

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  • Author : Louisiana. Board of Health
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 674 pages

Download or read book Report written by Louisiana. Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laws and ordinances relating to health and sanitation of the city of New Orleans: 1906-1907

Book Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine

Download or read book Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine written by George Thomas Little and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neither Fugitive nor Free

Download or read book Neither Fugitive nor Free written by Edlie L. Wong and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave jurisdiction—at least according to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of law. Edlie Wong critically recuperates these cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African American and American literary studies.