The founding history of New Orleans from its origins as an unpromising swamp through Louisiana statehood in 1812, told through the imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England and the merchants, settlers, and rogues who built it.
Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long New Orleans resident, traces the city's evolution from French village to African market town to Spanish fortress to Anglo-American commercial hub, a place shaped by four continents of peoples, languages, and religions, and perpetually on the verge of unraveling. Rich with land-jobbing schemes, stock market crashes, and status battles, it reads as much like a picaresque novel as a history.
- Lawrence N. Powell, Author
- Published in 2012
- Hardcover, 448 pages
- Published by Harvard University Press
- ISBN: 9780674059870
The founding history of New Orleans from its origins as an unpromising swamp through Louisiana statehood in 1812, told through the imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England and the merchants, settlers, and rogues who built it.
Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long New Orleans resident, traces the city's evolution from French village to African market town to Spanish fortress to Anglo-American commercial hub, a place shaped by four continents of peoples, languages, and religions, and perpetually on the verge of unraveling. Rich with land-jobbing schemes, stock market crashes, and status battles, it reads as much like a picaresque novel as a history.
- Lawrence N. Powell, Author
- Published in 2012
- Hardcover, 448 pages
- Published by Harvard University Press
- ISBN: 9780674059870