Hope & New Orleans: A History of Crescent City Street Names

by Sally Asher

Overview

New Orleans is a city of beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious couples with Nuns, Market and Race. Music, Arts and Painters are parallel. New Orleans enfolds its denizens in the protection of saints, the artistry of Muses and the bravery of military leaders. The city's street names are inseparable from its diverse history. They serve as guideposts as well as a narrative that braid its pride, wit and seedier history into a complex web that to this day simultaneously joins and shows the cracks within the city. Learn about Bourbon's royal lineage, the magnitude of Napoleon's influence, how Tchoupitoulas's history is just as long and vexing as its spelling and why mispronouncing such streets as Burgundy, Calliope and Socrates doesn't mean you are incorrect—it just means you are local Told with precision and photos as vibrant, irreverent and memorable as La Nouvelle Orleans itself, author Sally Asher delivers an updated and reinvented look at the city that care forgot.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626190535
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	03/18/2014
Series:	Landmarks
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,160,695
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sally Asher is a writer and photographer living in New Orleans. Currently, she is the public relations photographer for Tulane University, where she is also pursuing a master's of history degree and where she earned her master's in english. She is a member of the Arts Council of New Orleans, the Louisiana Historical Society, the New Orleans Photo Alliance, the Southern Association for Women Historians and the Krewe of Nyx. View her writing and photography at sallyasherarts.com

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 From Flags to Flag Boys: The Explorers and the Founders 17

Chapter 2 Heads of Crowns to Crowns of Thorns: Bastards, Saints and Sovereigns 44

Chapter 3 Exquisite Nepotism: Plantation Belles and the Landowners Who Loved Them 70

Chapter 4 Silver Tongues, Silver Tips and Silver Keys: Politicians, Pirates and Prodigies 89

Chapter 5 Glorious Fighters: Military Heroes and Civic Leaders 116

Chapter 6 Crescent Creators: The Planners, the Dreamers and the Givers 137

Chapter 7 Whimsical Reality: The Contrived, the Fanciful and the Practical 161

Appendix: Vocabulary 181

Notes 185

Index 211

About the Author 224