The accidental city improvising New Orleans
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 Eng...
| Main Author: | Powell, Lawrence N. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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