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Author Powell, Lawrence N

Title The accidental city : improvising New Orleans / Lawrence N. Powell
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-400) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject French -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
British -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
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
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 17th century
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 18th century
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674068933
0674068939
9780674065444
0674065441