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New Orleans Guides

French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide
Malcolm Heard
ISBN-10: 0878059881 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878059898 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1997
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Canoeing Louisiana
Ernest Herndon author info
ISBN-10: 1578064260 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578064250 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578064267 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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Louisiana Dayride: Fifty-two Short Trips from New Orleans
Shelley N. C. Holl
ISBN-10: 0878058222 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878058228 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1995
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New Orleans Memories: One Writer's City
Carolyn Kolb
ISBN-13: 9781617038839 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2013

The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans, Updated Edition
Susan Larson
ISBN-13: 9780807153079 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2013
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Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker
ISBN-13: 9780520274037 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520274044 (paper)
University of California Press, 2013

New Orleans: The Underground Guide, Third Edition
Michael Patrick Welch, Brian Boyles; photographs by Zack Smith, Jonathan Traviesa
ISBN-13: 9780807156063 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2014

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History

Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward
Jane Fulton Alt
ISBN-13: 9781930066908 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781930066915 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2009
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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
James B. Bennett
ISBN-10: 0691121486 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780691121482 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, 2005
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The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina
Dan Burkholder, photographs, foreword by Andrei Codrescu
ISBN-13: 9780292717138 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2008
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Bourbon Street: A History
Richard Campanella
ISBN-13: 9780807155059 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2014

New Orleans As It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life
Henry C. Castellanos
ISBN-10: 0807132098 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807132098 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2006
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Deep'n As It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood
Pete Daniel author info
ISBN-10: 1557284016 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781557284013 (paper)
University of Arkansas Press, 1996
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Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
Shannon Lee Dawdy
ISBN-10: 0226138410 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226138411 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226138428 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226138435
University of Chicago Press, 2008
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New Orleans Cabildo: Colonial Louisiana's First City Government, 1769—1803
Gilbert C. Din, John E. Harkins
ISBN-10: 0807120421 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807120422 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 1996
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The Night the War Was Lost
Charles L. Dufour
ISBN-10: 0803265999 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780803265998 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 1994
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Madame Vieux Carré: The French Quarter in the Twentieth Century
Scott S. Ellis
ISBN-13: 9781604733587 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2009
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Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
Adam Fairclough
ISBN-10: 0820331147 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820331140 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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Missionary Bishop: Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans
Patrick Foley
ISBN-13: 9781603448246 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 2013

New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society
Kent Germany
ISBN-10: 0820329002 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820325439 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820329000 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2007
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Mayor Victor H. Schiro: New Orleans in Transition, 1961-1970
Edward F. Haas
ISBN-13: 9781628460179 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2014

The Capture of New Orleans, 1862
Chester G. Hearn
ISBN-10: 0807130702 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807130704 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2005
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When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans
Chester G. Hearn
ISBN-10: 0807126233 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807126233 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2000
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Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast
Philip D. Hearn author info
ISBN-10: 1578066557 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578066551 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2004
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Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
James K. Hogue
ISBN-10: 0807131474 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807131473 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807143612 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2006
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My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era
Jean-Charles Houzeau, edited by David C. Rankin, translated by Gerard F. Denault
ISBN-10: 0807126896 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807126899 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2001
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Category 5: The Story of Camille, America’s Most Violent Hurricane
Judith A. Howard, Ernest Zebrowski
ISBN-10: 0472115251 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780472115259 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780472032402 (paper)
University of Michigan Press, 2005
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Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819
Thomas N. Ingersoll
ISBN-10: 1572330236 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1572330244 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781572330238 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781572330245 (paper)
University of Tennessee Press, 1999

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta
Glen Jeansonne
ISBN-10: 1578069173 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578069170 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2006
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Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15, with an Atlas, Expanded Edition
Arsene LaCarriere Latour
ISBN-10: 0813016754 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813016757 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813033358 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 1999
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The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920
Alecia P. Long
ISBN-10: 0807131121 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807131121 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2004
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
Carolyn Morrow Long
ISBN-10: 0813029740 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813029740 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813032146 (paper)
University Press of Florida, 2006
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Time’s Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family
Leta Weiss Marks
ISBN-10: 080712205X (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807122051 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 1997
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The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
Kevin F. McCarthy, D. J. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, Michael Pollard
ISBN-10: 0833039407 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2006
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A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina
Ian McNulty
ISBN-13: 9781934110911 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2008
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New Orleans and the Texas Revolution
Edward L. Miller
ISBN-10: 1585443581 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781585443581 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom
Justin A. Nystrom
ISBN-13: 9780801894343 (cloth)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans
Benton Rain Patterson
ISBN-10: 0814767176 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780814767177 (cloth)
New York University Press, 2005
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Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
Michael D. Pierson
ISBN-13: 9780807832288 (cloth)
University of North Carolina Press, 2009
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Lawrence N. Powell
ISBN-13: 9780674059870 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780674725904 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780674065444
Harvard University Press, 2012

The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report
Lawrence N. Powell, editor
ISBN-13: 9780807133194 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2008
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
John Shelton Reed
ISBN-13: 9780807147641 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2012

Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District
Al Rose
ISBN-10: 0817344039 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780817344030 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1974
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Michael A. Ross
ISBN-13: 9780199778805 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2014

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862
Judith Kelleher Schafer
ISBN-10: 0807128805 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807128800 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2003

Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans
Judith Kelleher Schafer
ISBN-13: 9780807133972 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807133972 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2009

Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
Billy Sothern, Photographs by Nikki Page
ISBN-13: 9780520251496 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780520933842
University of California Press, 2007

Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Jennifer M. Spear
ISBN-13: 9780801886805 (cloth)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
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Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer
David G. Spielman
ISBN-10: 0807132527 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807132524 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2007
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The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Frank Towers
ISBN-10: 0813922976 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813922973 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813927879 (paper)
University of Virginia Press, 2004

Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920-1963
Pamela Tyler
ISBN-13: 9780820334554 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2009

No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans
Daniel E. Walker
ISBN-10: 0816643261 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 081664327X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780816643264 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816643271 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2004
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Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
Martha Ward
ISBN-10: 1578066298 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578066292 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2004
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City of Memory: New Orleans, Before and After Katrina
John Woodin, With an essay by Craig E. Colten
ISBN-13: 9781935195184 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2010
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Geography, City Planning, & Development

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Vincanne Adams
ISBN-13: 9780822354345 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822354499 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013
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Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization
John Arena
ISBN-13: 9780816677467 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816677474 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2012

City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina; A Center for Public Integrity Investigation
Jenni Bergal, Sara Shipley Hiles, Frank Koughan, John McQuaid, Jim Morris, Katy Reckdahl, and Curtis Wilkie
ISBN-13: 9780807132845 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2007
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Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, editors
ISBN-10: 0812219805 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780812219807 (paper)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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City and Environment
Christopher G. Boone, Ali Modarres
ISBN-10: 1592132839 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592132847 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592132836 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592132843 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2006
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An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Craig E. Colten author info
ISBN-10: 0807129771 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807132004 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807129777 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807132005 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2005
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Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change
Craig E. Colten, editor author info
ISBN-10: 082295740X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780822957409 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001
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Tremé: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood
Michael E. Crutcher Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780820335940 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820335957 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820337609
University of Georgia Press, 2010

The Trouble with City Planning: What New Orleans Can Teach Us
Kristina Ford
ISBN-13: 9780300127355 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300177428 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2010

Over New Orleans: Aerial Photographs
David King Gleason
ISBN-10: 0807112887 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807112885 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 1985
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Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans
Kevin Fox Gotham, Miriam Greenberg
ISBN-13: 9780199752225 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199752218 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2014

The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans
Cedric Johnson, editor
ISBN-13: 9780816673247 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816673254 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2011

A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
Ari Kelman author info
ISBN-10: 0520234324 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520234321 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520234338 (paper)
University of California Press, 2003
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Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps
Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason R. Wiese, editors
ISBN-10: 0917860470 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780917860478 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003
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New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
Peirce F. Lewis author info
ISBN-10: 1930066090 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1930066104 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781930066601 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781930066106 (paper)
University of Virginia Press, 2003
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An Economic Development Architecture for New Orleans
Kevin F. McCarthy
ISBN-13: 9780833043245 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2008

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 2: Geography
Richard Pillsbury, editor
ISBN-10: 0807830135 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807856819 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807830130 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807856819 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2006
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Recruitment and Retention: Lessons for the New Orleans Police Department
Bernard D. Rostker, William M. Hix, Jeremy M. Wilson, editors
ISBN-13: 9780833041425 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2007

Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century
Mary P. Ryan
ISBN-10: 0520216601 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520216600 (paper)
University of California Press, 1997
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Coming Home to New Orleans: Neighborhood Rebuilding After Katrina
Karl F. Seidman
ISBN-13: 9780199945511 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2013

What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina
Phil Steinberg, Rob Shields
ISBN-10: 0820329649 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0820330949 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820329642 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820330945 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2008
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Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
Ted Steinberg
ISBN-10: 0195309685 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780195309683 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2006

Saving Louisiana?: The Battle for Coastal Wetlands
Bill J. Streever author info
ISBN-10: 1578063485 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578063291 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578063482 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2001
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Economy of New Orleans

Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes
Barbara L. Allen
ISBN-10: 0262511347 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780262511346 (paper)
MIT Press, 2003

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923
Eric Arnesen
ISBN-10: 0252063775 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780252063770 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1994
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Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families
Roberta Rehner Iversen, Annie Laurie Armstrong
ISBN-10: 159213355X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592133568 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592133550 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592133567 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2006
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Ending Poverty as We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage
William P. Quigley
ISBN-10: 1592130321 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 159213033X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592130320 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592130337 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2003
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New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City
J. Mark Souther
ISBN-10: 0807131938 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807131930 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2006
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Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945
Anthony J. Stanonis author info
ISBN-10: 0820328170 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0820328227 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820328171 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820328225 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820341583
University of Georgia Press, 2006
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Race, Ethnicity, & Religion in New Orleans

Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956
R. Bentley Anderson author info
ISBN-10: 0826514839 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780826514837 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780826514844 (paper)
Vanderbilt University Press, 2005
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Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century
Arthé A. Anthony
ISBN-13: 9780813041872 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2012

A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
Carl L. Bankston III, Stephen J. Caldas author info
ISBN-10: 0826513883 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0826513891 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780826513885 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780826513892 (paper)
Vanderbilt University Press, 2002
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
Shane K. Bernard
ISBN-10: 1578065224 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1578065232 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578065226 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578065233 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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Black New Orleans, 1860-1880
John W. Blassingame
ISBN-10: 0226057089 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780226057071 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226057088 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226057095
University of Chicago Press, 1973, reprinted 2006
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Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
Carl A. Brasseaux
ISBN-10: 0878055835 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878055838 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1992
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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
Carl A. Brasseaux, Claude F. Oubre, and Keith P. Fontenot; foreword by Clifton Carmon
ISBN-10: 0878059490 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878057146 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878059492 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1995
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The Rise of David Duke
Tyler Bridges
ISBN-10: 087805684X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878056842 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1994
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African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City
David R. Colburn, Jeffrey S. Adler, editors
ISBN-10: 025207260X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780252072604 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2005
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From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences
Nathalie Dessens
ISBN-10: 0813030374 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813030371 (cloth)
University Press of Florida, 2007
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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South
Eli N. Evans
ISBN-10: 0807829587 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807856231 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807829585 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807856239 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2005
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Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
James Gill
ISBN-10: 0878059164 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878059164 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1997
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Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900
William Ivy Hair
ISBN-13: 9780807133347 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 1986
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Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization
Arnold R. Hirsch, Joseph Logsdon, editors
ISBN-10: 0807117749 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807117743 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 1992
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An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
ISBN-13: 9780807130292 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2004
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Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir
Peter Jan Honigsberg
ISBN-10: 0520234596 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520234598 (paper)
University of California Press, 2000
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The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an African-American Religion
Claude F. Jacobs, Andrew J. Kaslow
ISBN-10: 1572331488 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781572331488 (paper)
University of Tennessee Press, 2001

Travels with Mae: Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood
Eileen M. Julien
ISBN-13: 9780253353160 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2009
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Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
Emily Epstein Landau
ISBN-13: 9780807150146 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2013

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics; Revised and Expanded Edition
George Lipsitz author info
ISBN-10: 1592134939 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592134947 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781592134939 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781592134946 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2006
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Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Leonard N. Moore
ISBN-13: 9780807135907 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2010

Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
Lawrence N. Powell
ISBN-10: 0807825042 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0807853747 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807825044 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807853740 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2000
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
Shirley Elizabeth Thompson
ISBN-13: 9780674023512 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2009
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The "Baby Dolls": Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition
Kim Marie Vaz
ISBN-13: 9780807150702 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2013

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Arts & Culture

     General
     Literary New Orleans
     New Orleans Music
     Food and Cooking
     Visual Arts
     Architecture and Gardens

Arts & Culture: General

Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul
Roger D. Abrahams, with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson
ISBN-10: 0812239598 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780812239591 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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Cajun Country
Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay Edwards, and Glen Pitre
ISBN-10: 0878054677 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878054671 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1991
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Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture
Marcia Gaudet, James C. McDonald, editors
ISBN-10: 1578065291 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1578065305 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578065295 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578065301 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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Cajun Mardi Gras Masks
Carl Lindahl, Carolyn Ware
ISBN-10: 0878059687 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878059683 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878059690 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1997
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New Orleans: A Cultural History
Louise McKinney
ISBN-10: 0195301366 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780195301366 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Joseph Roach
ISBN-10: 0231104618 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780231104609 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780231104616 (paper)
Columbia University Press, 1996
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Delirious New Orleans: Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City
Stephen Verderber
ISBN-13: 9780292717534 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2009
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Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward
Carolyn E. Ware
ISBN-10: 0252031385 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0252073770 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780252031380 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780252073779 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2007
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Arts & Culture: Literary New Orleans

Cajun and Creole Folktales
Barry Jean Ancelet, Elemore Morgan, Jr., photographs
ISBN-10: 0878057099 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878057092 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1994
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Louisiana: A Novel
Erna Brodber
ISBN-10: 1578060311 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578060313 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1997
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The Myth of New Orleans in Literature: Dialogues of Race and Gender
Violet Harrington Bryan
ISBN-10: 0870497898 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780870497896 (cloth)
University of Tennessee Press, 1993

The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George Washington Cable
ISBN-10: 0820310204 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820310206 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 1880, reprinted 1988
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Dream State
Moira Crone
ISBN-10: 1578060974 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578060979 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1995
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Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans
Jeanne deLavigne, illustrated by Charles Richards
ISBN-13: 9780807152911 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2013

New Orleans Sketches
William Faulkner, edited by Carvel Collins
ISBN-10: 1578064716 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578064717 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2002
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Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole
Martha R. Field, edited by Joan B. McLaughlin and Jack McLaughlin
ISBN-10: 1578068258 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1578068266 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578068258 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578068265 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2006
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Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
David Horace Harwell
ISBN-10: 0807830399 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807830390 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807871539 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2006
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Chita: A Memory of Last Island
Lafcadio Hearn, edited by Delia LaBarre
ISBN-10: 1578065585 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578065585 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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Lafcadio Hearn’s America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials
Lafcadio Hearn, Edited by Simon J. Bronner
ISBN-10: 0813122295 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813122298 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2002
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To Find My Own Peace: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910
Melissa Walker Heidari, editor
ISBN-10: 0820325651 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820325651 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2004
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Tennessee Williams and the South
Kenneth Holditch, Richard Freeman Leavitt
ISBN-10: 1578064104 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578064106 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781604734652 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2002
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Literary New Orleans in the Modern World
Richard S. Kennedy, editor
ISBN-10: 0807131598 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807131596 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 1998
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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations
Richard S. Kennedy, editor
ISBN-10: 0807122734 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807122730 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 1992
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Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana
Carl Lindahl, Maida Owens, and C. Renée Harvison
ISBN-10: 087805930X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0878059318 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878059300 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878059317 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1997
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Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories: Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
James Nagel
ISBN-13: 9780817313388 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780817387174
University of Alabama Press, 2013

Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole
René Pol Nevils, Deborah George Hardy
ISBN-10: 0807130591 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807130599 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2005
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Christmas Stories from Louisiana
Dorothy Dodge Robbins, Kenneth Robbins, editors; illustrated by Francis X. Pavy
ISBN-10: 1578065887 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578065882 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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The Fortune-Teller
Victor Séjour, Norman R. Shapiro, translator,
ISBN-13: 9780252074066 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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The Jew of Seville
Victor Séjour, Norman R. Shapiro, translator
ISBN-13: 9780252074073 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Norman R. Shapiro, editor and translator
ISBN-10: 0252028767 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0252071492 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780252028762 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780252071492 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2004
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Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
S. Frederick Starr, editor
ISBN-10: 1578063523 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1578063531 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578063529 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578063536 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2001
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A Confederacy of Dunces: 20th Anniversary Edition
John Kennedy Toole
ISBN-10: 0807126063 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807126066 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2000
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Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
Jeff Weddle
ISBN-10: 1578069742 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578069743 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2007
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Glass House: A Novel
Christine Wiltz
ISBN-10: 0807126837 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780807126837 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2001
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Arts & Culture: New Orleans Music

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles
Barry Jean Ancelet, Elemore Morgan, Jr.
ISBN-10: 1578061709 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578061709 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1999
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Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings
Louis Armstrong, Edited by Thomas Brothers
ISBN-10: 019514046X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780195140460 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2001
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Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: A Comprehensive Reference
John H. Baron
ISBN-13: 9780807150825 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2013

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues
Shane K. Bernard
ISBN-10: 0878058753 (with CD) (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0878058761 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878058754 (with CD) (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878058761 (paper)
CD: 9780878058969
University Press of Mississippi, 1996
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Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance
Mick Burns
ISBN-10: 0807130486 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807130483 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807133330 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2006
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A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Samuel Charters
ISBN-13: 9781578068982 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2008
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Notes of a Pianist
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edited by Jeanne Behrend
ISBN-10: 0691127166 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780691127163 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 2005
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Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
Lawrence Gushee
ISBN-13: 9780199732333 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2010

Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
Charles Hersch
ISBN-10: 0226328678 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226328676 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226328683 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780226328690
University of Chicago Press, 2007
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Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
Vic Hobson
ISBN-13: 9781617039911 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2014

Traditional New Orleans Jazz: Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music
Thomas W. Jacobsen
ISBN-13: 9780807137796 (paper)
Louisiana State University Press, 2011

Jazz on the River
William Howland Kenney
ISBN-10: 0226437337 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780226437330 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, 2005
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Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
Alan Lomax
ISBN-10: 0520225309 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520225305 (paper)
University of California Press, 2001
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Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Matt Miller
ISBN-13: 9781558499355 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781558499362 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2012

Zydeco!
Rick Olivier, photographs, Ben Sandmel, text
ISBN-10: 1578061164 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578061150 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578061167 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1999
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New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History
Bruce Boyd Raeburn
ISBN-13: 9780472116751 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780472033218 (paper)
University of Michigan Press, 2009

Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
Matt Sakakeeny
ISBN-13: 9780822355526 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780822355670 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2013

The Jazz Scene: An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990
W. Royal Stokes
ISBN-10: 0195082702 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780195082708 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 1993
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New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
John Swenson
ISBN-13: 9780199754526 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780199931712 (paper)
Oxford University Press, 2011

Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans
Richard Brent Turner
ISBN-13: 9780253221209 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2009

New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
Lewis Watts, Eric Porter
ISBN-13: 9780520273870 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780520273887 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780520955325
University of California Press, 2013

Jazz on the Road: Don Albert's Musical Life
Christopher Wilkinson
ISBN-10: 0520229835 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780520229839 (paper)
University of California Press, 2001
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Arts & Culture: Food and Cooking

Secrets of a New Orleans Chef: Recipes from Tom Cowman’s Cookbook
Greg Cowman, foreword by Gene Bourg
ISBN-10: 1578061792 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578061792 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 1999
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New Orleans con Sabor Latino: The History and Passion of Latino Cooking
Zella Palmer Cuadra, Photographs by Natalie Root
ISBN-13: 9781617038952 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
Marcie Cohen Ferris
ISBN-10: 0807829781 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807829783 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807871232 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2005
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Cajun Foodways
C. Paige Gutierrez, foreword by Barry Jean Ancelet
ISBN-10: 0878055630 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878055623 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878055630 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2004
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You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans
Elsa Hahne
ISBN-13: 9781578069415 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2009
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Louisiana Cookery
Mary Land, Illustrated by Morris Henry Hobbs
ISBN-10: 157806757X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578067572 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2005
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The Crab Lover’s Book: Recipes & More
Mary Ethelyn Orso
ISBN-10: 087805796X (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878058013 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780878057962 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1995
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The Crawfish Book
Glen Pitre
ISBN-10: 0878055991 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878055999 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2005
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New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories
Susan Tucker, editor, Introduction by S. Frederick Starr
ISBN-13: 9781604731279 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2009
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Arts & Culture: Visual Arts

Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson
Christopher Maurer author info
ISBN-10: 1578065399 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578065394 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor
A. J. Meek, foreword by John H. Lawrence
ISBN-10: 1578069092 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578069095 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2007
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Printmaking in New Orleans
Jessie J. Poesch, editor
ISBN-10: 1578067685 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578067688 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2006
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Arts & Culture: Architecture and Gardens

Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans
Lake Douglas
ISBN-13: 9780807138373 (cloth)
Louisiana State University Press, 2011

The French Quarter of New Orleans
Jim Fraiser author info
ISBN-10: 1578065240 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781578065240 (cloth)
University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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The Garden District of New Orleans
Jim Fraiser, West Freeman
ISBN-13: 9781934110683 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9781617032783
University Press of Mississippi, 2012

Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks
Marc R. Matrana
ISBN-10: 1578069009 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9781578069002 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 2005
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The New Orleans Garden: Gardening in the Gulf South
Charlotte Seidenberg
ISBN-10: 0878056378 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780878056378 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1993
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