Accidental City Improvising New Orleans

Name: Accidental City Improvising New Orleans
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ISBN: 9780674725904

ISBN-10: 0674725905

ISBN-13: 9780674725904

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lawrence N. Powell

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This is the story of a city that shouldn t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for the whole Atlantic world.Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the city s history from its founding through Louisiana statehood in 1812. We see the Crescent City…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

David Connolly is Professor of Translation Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.Lawrence N. Powell, former holder of the James H. Clark Endowed Chair in American Civilization, is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University.




An Impossible River



A Landjobbing Scheme



Utopian by Design



Improvising a City



Changing of the Guard



In Contraband We Trust



A Creole City



Slavery and the Struggle for Mastery



The Slaves Remake Themselves



A New People, a New Racial Order



The American Gateway


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index