Building the Land of Dreams : : New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America / / Eberhard L. Faber.
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideolog...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 18 halftones. 2 tables. |
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