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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. At the turn of the twentieth century, one American city did something almost unthinkable: it created a legally recognized red-light district and allowed prostitution to operate openly within its boundaries.Just north of the French Quarter, a sixteen-block district emerged where brothels, sal…oons, dance halls, and music houses operated under city supervision. The neighborhood became known as Storyville. Elegant parlor houses welcomed wealthy visitors, smaller establishments catered to sailors and laborers, and guidebooks known as Blue Books advertised the district's brothels to travelers arriving from across the country.Storyville quickly became one of the most famous vice districts in the United States. Within its streets powerful madams built thriving businesses while musicians helped shape the early sounds of jazz that would soon spread far beyond New Orleans.In Storyville: Vice and Jazz in New Orleans, historian Gavin Benoit explores the rise and fall of this unusual urban experiment. Drawing on historical records, photographs, and contemporary accounts, the book traces how the district was created, how it operated, and why it ultimately disappeared in 1917. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On April 25, 1862, New Orleans looked toward the Mississippi River and saw defeat coming upriver.Union ships had forced their way past the forts below the city and brought the Confederacy's greatest port under Federal guns. New Orleans had been told to trust Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Ins…tead, the river that made the city rich became the road of conquest.Civil War New Orleans tells the story of a city caught between Confederate pride and Union power. It follows New Orleans from secession and the panic on the levee to Benjamin F. Butler's harsh military rule, the execution of William B. Mumford, General Order No. 28, and life under occupation.But occupation was only the beginning. As slavery weakened and Federal power reshaped the city, Black soldiers, free people of color, formerly enslaved people, Unionists, Southern Democrats, merchants, clergy, editors, and political leaders struggled over what New Orleans would become. From the Louisiana Native Guards, the New Orleans Massacre of 1866, and the Battle of Liberty Place, the city became a battleground over emancipation and Reconstruction.This is the story of a city conquered but never settled. Its buildings survived, but its politics, labor system, racial order, and civic life were thrown into crisis. New Orleans changed hands in 1862, but the fight over its future lasted far longer than the war itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first surprise is the brightness.In New Orleans, the cemeteries do not hide the dead beneath quiet lawns. They raise them into view. Whitewashed tombs catch the Louisiana sun. Wall vaults line narrow paths. Iron gates, marble tablets, crosses, angels, and weathered family names turn buri…al grounds into miniature cities of memory.A Guide to New Orleans Cemeteries is a clear, respectful, and richly detailed companion to the tombs, legends, and hidden histories of the Crescent City. Blending accessible history with visitor guidance, Gavin Benoit explains why above-ground burial became so closely associated with New Orleans, how family tombs and society tombs worked, what cemetery symbols mean, and how water, faith, disease, class, race, architecture, and memory shaped these remarkable landscapes.From St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and the tomb associated with Marie Laveau to Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, Metairie Cemetery, Greenwood, Holt Cemetery, Charity Hospital Cemetery, and other lesser-known burial grounds, this book looks beyond the usual tourist legends to reveal the people, traditions, and preservation struggles behind the city's famous "cities of the dead."Designed for travelers, history lovers, cemetery walkers, and armchair readers alike, this guide offers practical context, respectful etiquette, notable burials, suggested itineraries, and a glossary of cemetery terms. It is not a ghost story, though legends appear. It is a guide to seeing New Orleans through one of its most revealing landscapes.A historical guide to New Orleans cemeteries, above-ground tombs, cemetery legends, and the hidden burial traditions of the Crescent City. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Before New Orleans became America's most distinctive city, it was a colonial gamble built in blood, mud, water, and empire.Long before statehood, long before the French Quarter became a symbol, New Orleans was a precarious outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi. Claimed by France, governed…by Spain, shaped by Africa and the Caribbean, and transformed by trade, slavery, migration, and imperial rivalry, the city grew in a world older and more complex than the United States that would one day claim it.In The Making of New Orleans, historian Gavin Benoit traces the city's early development from unstable riverbank settlement to Louisiana statehood in 1812. Along the way, he explores the Indigenous world that preceded European rule, the brutal labor that built the colony, the rise of a Creole society, the impact of Spanish rule, the fires that remade the city, the refugee shockwaves of the Haitian Revolution, and the uneasy arrival of American power.Rather than treating New Orleans as a place that suddenly appeared, Benoit shows how it was made through conflict, adaptation, survival, and the meeting of many worlds. The result is a vivid, carefully researched portrait of a city that became American without ever becoming entirely like America.A vivid history of colonial New Orleans, Creole society, slavery, empire, and the road to statehood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The fall of a respected household in New Orleans began with a discovery that could not be contained.The home of Marie Delphine Macarty LaLaurie had long reflected the expectations of status and order that defined the city's social elite. What was revealed inside, however, could not be reconc…iled with that image. The reaction was immediate, and the story spread quickly, but what followed did not bring clear resolution.In Marie Delphine Macarty LaLaurie: Horror, Myth, and Infamy in New Orleans, historian Gavin Benoit moves beyond legend to examine the documented history behind one of the city's most enduring cases. Drawing on contemporary accounts and the broader context of urban slavery, this book reconstructs what can be supported by evidence while separating it from the layers of interpretation that developed over time.The LaLaurie case is presented not as a story shaped by myth, but as one grounded in the conditions that made it possible. It reveals a system in which private authority operated with limited oversight, a moment of exposure that brought those conditions into view, and a public response that produced outrage without securing full accountability. As the narrative moves beyond the immediate events, it follows how the story expanded through retelling, becoming part of the city's cultural memory while growing increasingly distant from its original sources.What remains is a history that is both clear and incomplete, defined as much by what can be established as by what cannot. The significance of the story lies not in what has been added to it over time, but in what was revealed when the boundaries between public appearance and private reality could no longer be maintained. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On April 25, 1862, New Orleans looked toward the Mississippi River and saw defeat coming upriver.Union ships had forced their way past the forts below the city and brought the Confederacy's greatest port under Federal guns. New Orleans had been told to trust Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Ins…tead, the river that made the city rich became the road of conquest.Civil War New Orleans tells the story of a city caught between Confederate pride and Union power. It follows New Orleans from secession and the panic on the levee to Benjamin F. Butler's harsh military rule, the execution of William B. Mumford, General Order No. 28, and life under occupation.But occupation was only the beginning. As slavery weakened and Federal power reshaped the city, Black soldiers, free people of color, formerly enslaved people, Unionists, Southern Democrats, merchants, clergy, editors, and political leaders struggled over what New Orleans would become. From the Louisiana Native Guards, the New Orleans Massacre of 1866, and the Battle of Liberty Place, the city became a battleground over emancipation and Reconstruction.This is the story of a city conquered but never settled. Its buildings survived, but its politics, labor system, racial order, and civic life were thrown into crisis. New Orleans changed hands in 1862, but the fight over its future lasted far longer than the war itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if the most misunderstood tradition in New Orleans is also one of its oldest and most enduring?In the streets of the French Quarter, along the quiet waters of Bayou St. John, and deep within the city's layered past, Voodoo has long been surrounded by mystery, fear, and fascination. For…generations, stories have painted it as something secretive, dangerous, and otherworldly.The truth is far more complex and far more compelling.In The History of Voodoo: Spirits, Rituals, and Sacred Traditions of New Orleans, historian Gavin Benoit traces the origins of this powerful spiritual tradition from its roots in West Africa to its transformation in Haiti and its lasting presence in New Orleans. Along the way, he explores the lives of the people who shaped it, from the legendary Marie Laveau to the priests, healers, and practitioners who carried these traditions across centuries.Blending careful historical research with vivid storytelling, this book separates myth from reality, revealing Voodoo not as a curiosity or spectacle, but as a living religion shaped by survival, adaptation, and community.Discover the ceremonies, beliefs, and cultural forces that gave rise to one of the most iconic traditions in American history and learn how it continues to influence the identity of New Orleans today.A compelling exploration of history, religion, and folklore in the heart of the Crescent City. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. At the turn of the twentieth century, one American city did something almost unthinkable: it created a legally recognized red-light district and allowed prostitution to operate openly within its boundaries.Just north of the French Quarter, a sixteen-block district emerged where brothels, sal…oons, dance halls, and music houses operated under city supervision. The neighborhood became known as Storyville. Elegant parlor houses welcomed wealthy visitors, smaller establishments catered to sailors and laborers, and guidebooks known as Blue Books advertised the district's brothels to travelers arriving from across the country.Storyville quickly became one of the most famous vice districts in the United States. Within its streets powerful madams built thriving businesses while musicians helped shape the early sounds of jazz that would soon spread far beyond New Orleans.In Storyville: Vice and Jazz in New Orleans, historian Gavin Benoit explores the rise and fall of this unusual urban experiment. Drawing on historical records, photographs, and contemporary accounts, the book traces how the district was created, how it operated, and why it ultimately disappeared in 1917. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first surprise is the brightness.In New Orleans, the cemeteries do not hide the dead beneath quiet lawns. They raise them into view. Whitewashed tombs catch the Louisiana sun. Wall vaults line narrow paths. Iron gates, marble tablets, crosses, angels, and weathered family names turn buri…al grounds into miniature cities of memory.A Guide to New Orleans Cemeteries is a clear, respectful, and richly detailed companion to the tombs, legends, and hidden histories of the Crescent City. Blending accessible history with visitor guidance, Gavin Benoit explains why above-ground burial became so closely associated with New Orleans, how family tombs and society tombs worked, what cemetery symbols mean, and how water, faith, disease, class, race, architecture, and memory shaped these remarkable landscapes.From St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and the tomb associated with Marie Laveau to Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, Metairie Cemetery, Greenwood, Holt Cemetery, Charity Hospital Cemetery, and other lesser-known burial grounds, this book looks beyond the usual tourist legends to reveal the people, traditions, and preservation struggles behind the city's famous "cities of the dead."Designed for travelers, history lovers, cemetery walkers, and armchair readers alike, this guide offers practical context, respectful etiquette, notable burials, suggested itineraries, and a glossary of cemetery terms. It is not a ghost story, though legends appear. It is a guide to seeing New Orleans through one of its most revealing landscapes.A historical guide to New Orleans cemeteries, above-ground tombs, cemetery legends, and the hidden burial traditions of the Crescent City. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
