The accidental city [electronic resource] : improvising New Orleans / Lawrence N. Powell.
2012
F379.N557 P68 2012eb
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The accidental city [electronic resource] : improvising New Orleans / Lawrence N. Powell.
Author
Powell, Lawrence N.
ISBN
9780674068933 (electronic bk.)
0674068939 (electronic bk.)
9780674059870
0674059875
0674068939 (electronic bk.)
9780674059870
0674059875
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (422 p.) : ill., maps.
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F379.N557 P68 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.3/35
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-400) and index.
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Table of Contents
An impossible river
A landjobbing scheme
Utopian by design
Improvising a 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 gateway.
A landjobbing scheme
Utopian by design
Improvising a 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 gateway.