Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455609291
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
New Orleans, 1718-1812
Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455609291
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
New Orleans 1718-1812
Author: John G. ClarkNew Orleans, 1718-1812
Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In this detailed economic history, Prof. John G. Clark explores the ever-expanding commercial world of New Orleans and the Louisiana colony during their first century of development.
New Orleans 1718-1812
Author: John G. ClarkPublisher: Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780882893464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In this detailed economic history, Professor John G. Clark explores the ever-expanding commercial world of New Orleans and the Louisiana colony during their first century of development. In 1718, the new settlementi1/2s location on the Mississippi River bank, allowed New Orleans to develop into a major port, and consequently to gain significant economic power. During the formative years, however, both New Orleans and the colony of Louisiana were on the brink of economic disaster due to a lack of assistance from France. Despite insufficient money and supplies, gains such as the establishment of plantations and the development of trade systems were made nevertheless. Under Spanish rule, New Orleans emerged as a major port and assumed a more urban identity. Because Spain allowed Louisiana to operate outside of the colonial system, English and American commerce began to flourish in New Orleans. This contributed greatly to the cityi1/2s economic progress between 1765 and 1803. When Louisiana was transferred to the United States, New Orleans, then free of colonial economic restrictions, was soon integrated into the world's largest free trade area. New capitalist enterprises such as banks and insurance companies began to emerge, and additional avenues of economic expansion opened up for the port city. In this volume, Clark gives a truly comprehensive account of New Orleansi1/2 first century of economic history.
The Story of the Battle of New Orleans
Author: Stanley Clisby ArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.), Battle of, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Story of the Battle of New Orleans (Classic Reprint)
Author: Stanley Clisby ArthurPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265585641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of the Battle of New Orleans Address Louisiana in the Battle of New Orleans, Wm. C. Dufour. Music: Listen to the M'ocking Bird. Address The Daughters of 1812, Mrs. William Gerry Slade, National President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Building the Devil's Empire
Author: Shannon Lee DawdyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226138437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans’s wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city’s global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism—where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined—New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works. "[A] penetrating study of the colony's founding."—Nation “A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing together archival research, archaeology, and literary analysis.”—Laurent Dubois, Duke University
Bienville's Dilemma
Author: Richard CampanellaPublisher: University of Louisiana
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
All New Orleans' glories, tragedies, contributions, and complexities can be traced back to the geographical dilemma Bienville confronted in 1718 when selecting the primary location of New Orleans. "Bienville's Dilemma" presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery.
Avoyelleans at the Battle of New Orleans and in the War Of 1812
Author: Randy Paul DecuirPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502319807
Category : Avoyelles Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"200th anniversary, 1812-1815, 2012-1815"--Cover.
Spanish New Orleans
Author: John Eugene RodriguezPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807175013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
John Eugene Rodriguez’s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808. His work questions that of earlier historians, who argued that Latin America was fundamentally conservative and complaisant under Bourbon rule. Instead, Spanish New Orleans shows that in the capital of Louisiana, Spanish rulers were slowly losing control of three interwoven aspects of the city: demography, trade, and political discourse. Rodriguez demonstrates how the multiethnic, multilingual population of the city played a central role in encouraging trans-imperial free trade and especially trade with the United States, to the point of economic dependence. This dependence in turn prompted the Bourbon governors in New Orleans to negotiate both economic and political discourse in a city that was steadily moving closer in every way to the United States. Far from being a peripheral city in a peripheral colony, by 1803 New Orleans was reshaping the Spanish empire beyond the comprehension of the Spanish king. Chapters on the city’s foundational merchants, literacy, and the judicial system all point to the unique character of this imperial city on the American periphery. This study marks new methodological paths for historians of Latin America and early U.S. history by making use of enormous data compilations on population, ethnicity, and economics. Rodriguez also analyzes previously ignored eighteenth-century Spanish-language documents, including petitions, postal records, and military rosters, and engages underutilized tools such as signature analysis. Through his use of original sources and innovative methodologies, Rodriguez makes new and intriguing comparisons between New Orleans and other contemporary Spanish imperial cities as well as cities in the then-expanding United States. In Spanish New Orleans, Rodriguez goes beyond simply positioning New Orleans within Spanish imperial history. Taking a broader view, he considers what Spanish New Orleans reveals about the challenges and opportunities faced by the Spanish Bourbon empire, and he sheds light on how a new North American empire could so quickly and easily absorb a Spanish city.