The Making of New Orleans (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Independently Published, 2026

9798195142735

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Paperback. Before New Orleans became America's most distinctive city, it was a colonial gamble built in blood, mud, water, and empire.Long before statehood, long before the French Quarter became a symbol, New Orleans was a precarious outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi. Claimed by France, governed by Spain, shaped by Africa and the Caribbean, and transformed by trade, slavery, migration, and imperial rivalry, the city grew in a world older and more complex than the United States that would one day claim it.In The Making of New Orleans, historian Gavin Benoit traces the city's early development from unstable riverbank settlement to Louisiana statehood in 1812. Along the way, he explores the Indigenous world that preceded European rule, the brutal labor that built the colony, the rise of a Creole society, the impact of Spanish rule, the fires that remade the city, the refugee shockwaves of the Haitian Revolution, and the uneasy arrival of American power.Rather than treating New Orleans as a place that suddenly appeared, Benoit shows how it was made through conflict, adaptation, survival, and the meeting of many worlds. The result is a vivid, carefully researched portrait of a city that became American without ever becoming entirely like America.A vivid history of colonial New Orleans, Creole society, slavery, empire, and the road to statehood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titolo
The Making of New Orleans (Paperback)
Autore
Gavin Benoit
Editore
Independently Published
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798195142735

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