The accidental city
Subtitle: improvising New Orleans
By: Lawrence N. Powell
Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780674725904
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Spaniards; French; Slavery; British; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-400) and index.
Table of contents: title: An impossible river; title: A landjobbing scheme; title: Utopian by design; title: Improvising a city; title: Changing of the guard; title: In contraband we trust; title: A Creole city; title: Slavery and the struggle for mastery; title: The slaves remake themselves; title: A new people, a new racial order; title: The American gateway.