The accidental city
Subtitle: improvising New Orleans
By: by Lawrence N. Powell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780674059870
Subjects: Spaniards; French; Slavery; British; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An impossible river; title: The accidental city; title: Bayoutopia; title: The improvised 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 hinge.