The Cities Of Dead

Author : Alys Arden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989757749

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The Cities of Dead by Alys Arden Pdf

The Cities of Dead: the highly anticipated third book in Alys Arden's spellbinding The Casquette Girls series. Old World witches collide with the French Quarter's strangest denizens, setting off events that could tear the fabric of the Natural and Supernatural worlds, and only the most elusive, mischievous Voodoo lwa hold the key to stopping it. As Adele struggles with her losses, Nicco's secrets draw her closer, but Isaac questions Nicco's motives and refuses to let go without a fight. While the coven works to make the streets safe from the Ghost Drinkers, Nicco's family of vampires is ready to break the Saint-Germain curse at all costs and settle a centuries-old feud. To save her loved ones and her cherished city, Adele must unearth New Orleans's best-kept Voodoo secret and piece together fragments of history from sixteenth-century Spain--even if it means discovering secrets she never wanted to know. If she fails, she may lose her magic forever.

Author : Joseph Roach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231555265

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Cities of the Dead by Joseph Roach Pdf

In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the “feathered people” and warlike “Mohocks.” Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, “Mardi Gras Indians” or “Black Masking Indians” take to the streets of New Orleans at carnival time and for weeks thereafter, parading in handmade “suits” resplendent with beadwork and feathers. What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three centuries and several thousand miles of ocean? Interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans, through social events ranging from burials to sacrifices, auctions to parades, encompassing traditions as diverse as Haitian Voudon and British funerals. Considering processes of substitution, or surrogation, as enacted in performance, Roach demonstrates the ways in which people and cultures fill the voids left by death and departure. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic work features a new preface reflecting on the relevance of its arguments to the politics of performance and performance in contemporary politics.

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876237

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Cities of the Dead by William A. Blair Pdf

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations by ex-Confederates were intended at first to maintain a separate identity from the U.S. government, Blair argues, not as a vehicle for promoting sectional healing. The burial grounds of fallen heroes, known as Cities of the Dead, often became contested ground, especially for Confederate women who were opposed to Reconstruction. And until the turn of the century, African Americans used freedom celebrations to lobby for greater political power and tried to create a national holiday to recognize emancipation. Blair's analysis shows that some festive occasions that we celebrate even today have a divisive and sometimes violent past as various groups with conflicting political agendas attempted to define the meaning of the Civil War.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Central business districts
ISBN : OCLC:317765785

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf

Author : Linda Barnes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504014526

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Cities of the Dead by Linda Barnes Pdf

When a former PI is invited to a gathering of New Orleans chefs, murder is on the menu in this “well written, sharply observed” mystery (The New York Times). Sophisticated Boston Brahmin Michael Spraggue will never forget the flaky strawberry tarts Dora Levoyer made for him when he was a little boy. A French immigrant who has worked for Michael’s eccentric aunt Mary for decades, Dora has an old-world sensibility, an elegant palate, and a past that cannot be spoken of. Deserted by her husband long ago, she has fought hard to put him out of her mind. But when Dora is invited to a banquet held by the finest chefs in New Orleans, she sees a man who looks just like her missing spouse. Before she can confront him, he is found with a chef’s knife embedded in his heart—and every piece of evidence points to Dora as the killer. At his aunt Mary’s behest, Michael hops the first plane down to New Orleans—a mysterious city where the dead, like the living, have dangerous secrets. Cities of the Deadis the 4th book in the Michael Spraggue Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : Leander Watts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 061859499X

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Beautiful City of the Dead by Leander Watts Pdf

The author of "Stonecutter" presents the story of a teen girl who joins a rock band, only to find she is in fact the last piece of a tetrad that gives each member of the group a supernatural power.

Author : Denise Rinaldo
Publisher : 24/7: Science Behind the Scene
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0531120791

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Cities of the Dead by Denise Rinaldo Pdf

Discusses how archeologists discover and uncover evidence of extinct civilizations.

Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781442441293

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Dead City by James Ponti Pdf

Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781786732408

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The Dead City by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802715654

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Among the Dead Cities by A. C. Grayling Pdf

Presents an analysis of the miltary rationale used by Britain and the United States for bombing civilian targets in Germany and Japan during World War II, discussing the reasons why such tactics were both largely ineffective and morally reprehensible. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459738089

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The Toronto Book of the Dead by Adam Bunch Pdf

Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.

Author : Brian Keene
Publisher : Deadite Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621051129

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City of the Dead by Brian Keene Pdf

The sequel to one of those most popular zombies of all time in a new, uncut, author's preferred edition In this sequel to THE RISING, cities are overrun with legions of the undead, intent on destroying what's left of the living. Trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, a handful of survivors prepare to make their last stand against an unstoppable, merciless enemy. With every hour their chances diminish and their numbers dwindle, while the ranks of the dead continue to rise. Because sooner or later, everything dies. And then it comes back, ready to kill. Deadite Press is proud to present this uncut, Author's Preferred Edition of Brian Keene's seminal CITY OF THE DEAD

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 0965708519

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New Orleans Cemeteries by Anonim Pdf

New Orleans Cemeteries depicts the 'cities of the dead' in all their grandeur and decay, their exquisite artisanship and humble memorials, their voluminous historical accounts of the city and undefinable spiritual qualities. The definitive book on a very curious subject, New Orleans Cemeteries is as intensely visual as it is informative.

Author : Robert Florence
Publisher : University of Southwestern Louisiana
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433048788339

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City of the Dead by Robert Florence Pdf

A tour of St. Louis Cemetery #1 complete with a map.

Author : Alys Arden
Publisher : Skyscape
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 1503940004

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The Romeo Catchers by Alys Arden Pdf

"Adele's supernatural roller-coaster ride continues at breakneck speed." --RT Book Reviews Tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she's forced to tell to cover it up, Adele scours Storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family's magical past. But every turn leads her back to the one person she's determined to forget: the vampire Niccol Medici. Not even the bewitched locks trapping him can break their connection. Sensing Niccol calling to Adele, Isaac tries relentlessly to keep her from exploring paths that would endanger them all. But a new threat is rising in New Orleans...an older enemy that will bring Isaac's haunted past to life, test the witches' friendships, and jeopardize Adele and Isaac's blossoming relationship. In this spellbinding continuation of The Casquette Girls saga, Adele delves into seventeenth-century Florence--a time bubbling with alchemy and fraternal betrayal. As she uncovers long-buried secrets, sorting history from fantasy will be her only hope of saving her mother, her coven, and her magic.