Building the devil's empire [electronic resource] : French colonial New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy.
2008
F379.N557 D39 2008eb
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Title
Building the devil's empire [electronic resource] : French colonial New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy.
Author
Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967-
ISBN
9780226138411 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226138410 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226138410 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 320 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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F379.N557 D39 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.3/3502
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-306) and index.
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Table of Contents
"A veritable Babylon" : enlightenment and disorder
La ville sauvage : nature and urban planning
A backwater entrepôt
La renommée : from colonial experiment to Creole society
Tensions of power : law, discipline, and violence
Conclusion : revolt and rogue colonialism.
La ville sauvage : nature and urban planning
A backwater entrepôt
La renommée : from colonial experiment to Creole society
Tensions of power : law, discipline, and violence
Conclusion : revolt and rogue colonialism.