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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... tion that connected the Mississippi watershed, the Gulf Rim, the Atlantic seaboard, the Caribbean Rim, Western Europe (especially France and Spain), and various areas of West and central Africa. New Orleans is an alternative American ...
... tion, and the island was most commonly referred to by the name of its capital, Spain's first city in the New World: Santo Domingo. At the time Santo Domingo was established, the one territory in Europe that might qualify as a nation ...
... tion to an area around the town of Santo Domingo. To achieve this, over a hundred recalcitrant colonists were hung, and homes and farms burned. The entire northern coast of the island, and all of the west, was left unoccupied. The ...
... tion colony of Surinam. With its Dutch legacy giving it a different character from other Anglo-American cities, New York became, and remained, the most important North American business center. The Dutch dominated trade in Europe and ...
... tion required notification of authorities within eight days of purchase of a slave so that the slave could be baptized Roman Catholic, and the third stated: “We forbid any religion other than the Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith ...
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