"In Creole City, Nathalie Dessens opens a window onto antebellum New Orleans during a period of rapid expansion and dizzying change. Exploring previously neglected aspects of the city's early nineteenth-century history, Dessens examines how the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of New Orleans cam...

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1. Verfasser:	Dessens, Nathalie 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Gainesville University Press of Florida 2016
Schriftenreihe:	Contested boundaries
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Sozialgeschichte 1818-1839 Alltag, Brauchtum Geschichte Zeitzeuge New Orleans (La.) / History / 19th century New Orleans (La.) / Social life and customs / 19th century New Orleans, La. Briefsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"In Creole City, Nathalie Dessens opens a window onto antebellum New Orleans during a period of rapid expansion and dizzying change. Exploring previously neglected aspects of the city's early nineteenth-century history, Dessens examines how the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of New Orleans came to symbolize progress, adventure, and culture to so many. Rooting her exploration in the Sainte-Gême Family Papers harbored at The Historic New Orleans Collection, Dessens follows the twenty-year correspondence of Jean Boze to Henri de Ste-Gême, both refugees from Saint-Domingue. Through Boze's letters, written between 1818 and 1839, readers witness the convergence and merging of cultural attitudes as new arrivals and old colonial populations collide, sparking transformations in the economic, social, and political structures of the city. This Creolization of the city is thus revealed to be at the very heart of New Orleans's early identity and made this key hub of Atlantic trade so very distinct from other nineteenth-century American metropolises." --Back cover
Beschreibung:	xiii, 272 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:	9780813060200 9780813062181