The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo SquareChicago Review Press, 1 ene 2008 - 368 páginas STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance.
The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&”
This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities. |
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... Louisiana had what amounted to three colonial eras in rapid succession: French, Spanish, Anglo-American. Moreover ... territory returned to French control—but only for twenty days, until Napoleon Bonaparte's governor could hand Louisiana ...
... territory.9 The first slaves to Euro- peans in Louisiana were thus Native American sex slaves. In 1704, a shipment of twenty-two French girls arrived in Louisiana, but they “failed to satisfy the garrison's need for women.”10 Iberville ...
... Louisiana Territory, the crown would have to look for a private financier. Cadillac returned to France, where he pitched the exploitation of Louisiana to the kingdom's wealthiest businessman, Antoine Crozat (whose less affluent brother ...
... Louisiana as aggression, the Spanish began to occupy the territory, from which they had previously retreated for lack of any compelling reason to be there. The Natchitoches settlement thus triggered the Hispanicization of Texas. Twelve ...
... territory of Louisiana factored in, which had not yet begun to pro- duce anything—which, in fact, had as of yet only 215 French-speaking people in it, 160 of them soldiers—an enormous amount of money could be created.16 The French were ...
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