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Author Powell, Lawrence N.

Title The accidental city : improvising New Orleans / by Lawrence N. Powell.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  976.3 POW    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  976.335 POWELL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  976.335 POWELL    Check Shelf
Description 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-400) and index.
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.
Subject New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 17th century.
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 18th century.
French -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
British -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
ISBN 9780674059870 alkaline paper
0674059875 alkaline paper
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