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The accidental city: improvising New Orleans

By Powell , Lawrence N

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780674059870, 9780674725904, 0674725905
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2098177 bytes)
Edition
First Harvard University Press paperback edition
Pages
422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustr
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
British--Louisiana--New Orleans--History;French--L

Description

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.

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