The accidental city : improvising New Orleans / Lawrence N. Powell.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674068933
- 0674068939
- 9780674065444
- 0674065441
- New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 17th century
- New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 18th century
- French -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
- Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
- British -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
- Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
- Français -- Louisiane -- La Nouvelle-Orléans -- Histoire
- Espagnols -- Louisiane -- La Nouvelle-Orléans -- Histoire
- Britanniques -- Louisiane -- La Nouvelle-Orléans -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- British
- French
- Slavery
- Spaniards
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- 1600-1799
- 976.3/35 23
- F379.N557 P68 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-400) and index.
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.
Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.
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