Building Antebellum New Orleans : : Free People of Color and Their Influence /

Building Antebellum New Orleans : : Free People of Color and Their Influence / / Tara Dudley.

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2022 PROSE Award Winner in Architecture and Urban Planning The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
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Dudley, Tara,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.) :; 94 b&w photos and 22 color photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • FIGURES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I OWNERSHIP Possessing the Built Environment
  • Chapter 1 THE GENS DE COULEUR LIBRES’ ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY
  • Chapter 2 THE RAMIFICATIONS OF USE AND LOCATION
  • Part II ENGAGEMENT Forming and Transforming the Built Environment
  • Chapter 3 THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE DOLLIOLE AND SOULIÉ FAMILIES
  • Chapter 4 “UNCOMMON INDUSTRY” Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans
  • Chapter 5 “RAISED TO THE TRADE” Building Practices of Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans
  • Chapter 6 THE STATUS QUO French, Creole, and Anglo Builders and Architects in Antebellum New Orleans
  • Part III ENTREPRENEURSHIP Controlling the Built Environment
  • Chapter 7 MONEY, POWER, AND STATUS IN THE BUILDING TRADES
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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