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1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233). |
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part 1. Communities and the "under side" of America. 1. Levee life : haunts and pastimes of the roustabouts -- 2. Saint Malo : a lacrustine village in Louisiana -- 3. Sicilians in New Orleans -- 4. The last of the New Orleans fencing-masters -- 5. A gypsy camp -- 6. Some pictures of poverty : impressions of a round with an overseer of the poor -- 7. Pariah people : outcast life by night in the East End -- 8. Les chiffonniers : how they live, work and have their being -- 9. Within the bars : how prisoners look, live, and conduct themselves -- 10. Cincinnati salamanders : a confederation of twenty little communities -- 11. Steeple climbers -- pt. 2. "Enormous and lurid facts" : language, folklife, and culture. 12. Cheek -- 13. The Creole patois -- 14. The Creole doctor -- 15. The last of the voudoos -- 16. New Orleans superstitions -- 17. The music of the masses -- 18. Black varieties : the minstrels of the row -- 19. Among the spirits : an Enquirer reporter communicates with his father -- 20. Some strange experience : the reminiscences of a ghost-seer -- 21. Haceldama : Hebrew slaughterers, gentile butchers, and consumptive blood-drinkers -- 22. The manufacture of yellow and Rockingham ware in Cincinnati -- part 3. Opinions of America. 23. Growth of population in America -- 24. The Labour problem in America -- 25. The race-problem in America -- 26. Some Japanese ideas of American policy -- 27. Prevention of cruelty to women -- 28. Recent American novels -- 29. American magazines -- 30. American art tastes -- 31. The French in Louisiana -- 32. The roar of a great city. |
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Print version record. |
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| Subject |
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Homes and haunts -- Anecdotes.
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Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Political and social views.
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Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
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Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. (OCoLC)fst00038584
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United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Anecdotes.
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Ethnology -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
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Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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1800-1918
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Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Bronner, Simon J.
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America |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. Lafcadio Hearn's America. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002 0813122295 (DLC) 2001002585 (OCoLC)46952394 |
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081317046X (electronic bk.) |
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9780813170466 (electronic bk.) |
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