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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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
