Author: New Orleans Press ClubPublisher:
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
New Orleans, Louisiana
Author: New Orleans Press ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
New Orleans, Louisiana, Metorpolis of the South, Gateway to the Mississippi Valley
Author: Press Club of New OrleansPublisher:
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
An Unnatural Metropolis
Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an impossible but inevitable city. How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000. Before the city could swell in size and commercial importance as its nineteenth-century boosters envisioned, builders had to wrest it from its waterlogged site, protect it from floods, expel disease, and supply basic services using local resources. Colten shows how every manipulation of the environment made an impact on the city's social geography as well - often with unequal, adverse consequences for minorities - and how each still requires maintenance and improvement today. For example, while the massive levee system has controlled the unpredictable Mississippi, it also captures heavy down-pours, creating a new set of internal flood problems. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nat
New Orleans
Author: New Orleans (La.). Association of CommercePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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The New Orleans Book
Author: Emma Cecilia RicheyPublisher:
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The American Swedish Monthly
Author: An illustrated history of the great republic
Author: Jas. D. M'CabePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382134837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Swedish American Trade Journal
Author: The Accidental City
Author: Lawrence N. PowellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674068939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for the whole Atlantic world. Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the city’s history from its founding through Louisiana statehood in 1812. We see the Crescent City evolve from a French village, to an African market town, to a Spanish fortress, and finally to an Anglo-American center of trade and commerce. We hear and feel the mix of peoples, religions, and languages from four continents that make the place electric—and always on the verge of unraveling. The Accidental City is the story of land-jobbing schemes, stock market crashes, and nonstop squabbles over status, power, and position, with enough rogues, smugglers, and self-fashioners to fill a picaresque novel. Powell’s tale underscores the fluidity and contingency of the past, revealing a place where people made their own history. This is a city, and a history, marked by challenges and perpetual shifts in shape and direction, like the sinuous river on which it is perched.
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