ISBN: 9780674059870 (hc)

Description: 422 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• An impossible river
• The accidental city
• Bayoutopia
• The improvised 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 hinge.

LCCN: 2011035074

Control Number: 849310

Subjects:

• British -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
• French -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 17th century.
• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 18th century.
• Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
• Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.