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New Orleans: A Cultural and Literary History
Louise McKinney
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Paperback. A cultural and literary history of New Orleans, covering the city's Creole traditions and reputation for gastronomy and festivities. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 b&w drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city became "Paris on the Mississippi", the fashionable cultural capital of the American South, home to America's first opera house and birthplace of jazz. Many think of New Orleans, with its antebellum mansions, aboveground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks as a haunted place. It is certainly the most un-American of American cities, creating its own laid-back "Big ... Read more
Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city became "Paris on the Mississippi", the fashionable cultural capital of the American South, home to America's first opera house and birthplace of jazz. Many think of New Orleans, with its antebellum mansions, aboveground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks as a haunted place. It is certainly the most un-American of American cities, creating its own laid-back "Big ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal. 1 Paperback(s)
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904955023
SKU
V9781904955023
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About Louise McKinney
LOUISE MCKINNEY is a Canadian poet and journalist. Her writing has appeared widely in New Orleans, The Washington Post and Canada's The Globe & Mail.
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