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The past as prelude : New Orleans, 1718-1968 / Hodding Carter, editor-in-chief ; Wm. Ransome Hogan, John W. Lawrence, Betty Werlein Carter, [editors].
- Title
- The past as prelude : New Orleans, 1718-1968 / Hodding Carter, editor-in-chief ; Wm. Ransome Hogan, John W. Lawrence, Betty Werlein Carter, [editors].
- Publication
- Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 2008, c199
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- Description
- 382 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- New Orleans (La.) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Tulane University presents this volume of essays as the contribution of the Graduate School to the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the City of New Orleans"--P. [6]
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Hodding Carter -- The people of New Orleans / Charles L. Dufour -- The law with a difference and how it came about / Ferdinand Stone -- Creole architecture 1718-1860: The rise and fall of a great tradition / James Marston Fitch -- Pestilence in New Orleans / John Duffy -- Education in New Orleans / John P. Dyer -- The art scene in New Orleans, past and present / Alberta Collier -- The creative spirit / Albert Goldstein -- A sportsman's town / Crozet J. Duplantier -- The music of New Orleans / Henry Arnold Kmen -- Good time town / Phil Johnson -- Gateway to the Americas / James P. Baughman -- The post-Civil War segregation struggle / Roger Fischer -- New Orleans politics: the greatest free show on earth / Hermann B. Deutsch -- Mardi Gras / Laurraine Goreau.
- ISBN
- 9781589806818 (pbk.)
- 1589806816
- LCCN
- ^^^68025161^
- OCLC
- 298779874
- SCSB-11036178
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library