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 England, and...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Powell, Lawrence N. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The accidental city : |b improvising New Orleans / |c Lawrence N. Powell. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. ; |a London : |b Harvard University Press, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a 422 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Formerly CIP. |5 Uk | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a An impossible river -- The accidental city -- Bayoutopia -- The improvised 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 hinge. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a French |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Spaniards |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a British |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slavery |z Louisiana |z New Orleans |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a New Orleans (La.) |x History |y 17th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a New Orleans (La.) |x History |y 18th century. | |
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