
The Story of French New Orleans
History of a Creole City
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Sally Martin
What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the US. This audiobook explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last 300 years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French sociocultural dynamic left on the Crescent City.
The migration of Acadians to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced its Francophone identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the Antebellum South, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase.
New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The audiobook analyzes these connections and the shared process of Creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin. It suggests "French" New Orleans might be understood as a trope for unscripted "original" Creole social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially bound and contested social order within the US.
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interesting history of a unique area
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Sally Martin did an excellent job narrating. She spoke clearly and was easy to understand. She had great pronunciations.
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A Comprehensive Story of New Orleans
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Very informative
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One thing I found highly interesting what looking at the names of major roads in the city and what they are called. How changing of names, or the time in which they were named, provided an insight into the political and social affiliations of the Orleans peoples.
The book is filled with insights like this.
Narration by Sally Martin was good. Clear, easy to follow, well paced. She dealt well with the French and creole when it came up in the text.
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The most non-american US city
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Good history and insights but repeative
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New Orleans
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It is not always entertaining but if you listen to the entire Book you will can insight into an interesting topic.
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An interesting Book.
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History lesson
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The story of French New Orleans
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I rate the narration of this book 5 star - because Sally Martin managed to make a quite heavy history work into a pleasure to listen too. ( Think favorite college professor easy to listen too )
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In Depth History
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