Accidental city : improvising new orleans
Powell, Lawrence N.
Accidental city : improvising new orleans - London Harvard University Press 2012 - vii,422p.
Contents
1 An Impossible River 1
2 A Land jobbing Scheme 33
3 Utopian by Design 60
4 Improvising a City 92
5 Changing of the Guard 129
6 In Contraband We Trust 164
7 A Creole City 197
8 Slavery and the Struggle for Mastery 222
9 The Slaves Remake Themselves 249
10 A New People, a New Racial Order 277
11 The American Gateway 314
Epilogue 352
NOTES 361
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 401
INDEX 405
9780674725904
Conservation
Spaniards
Louisiana--New Orleans
British
French
India--Agra
976.335 / POW
Accidental city : improvising new orleans - London Harvard University Press 2012 - vii,422p.
Contents
1 An Impossible River 1
2 A Land jobbing Scheme 33
3 Utopian by Design 60
4 Improvising a City 92
5 Changing of the Guard 129
6 In Contraband We Trust 164
7 A Creole City 197
8 Slavery and the Struggle for Mastery 222
9 The Slaves Remake Themselves 249
10 A New People, a New Racial Order 277
11 The American Gateway 314
Epilogue 352
NOTES 361
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 401
INDEX 405
9780674725904
Conservation
Spaniards
Louisiana--New Orleans
British
French
India--Agra
976.335 / POW