Building the land of dreams : New Orleans and the transformation of early America
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Building the land of dreams : New Orleans and the transformation of early America
Princeton University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-423) and index
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内容説明
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 ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, Building the Land of Dreams is the narrative biography of a fascinating city at the most crucial turning point in its history. Eberhard Faber tells the vivid story of how American rule forced New Orleans through a vast transition: from the ordered colonial world of hierarchy and subordination to the fluid, unpredictable chaos of democratic capitalism. The change in authority, from imperial Spain to Jeffersonian America, transformed everything. As the city's diverse people struggled over the terms of the transition, they built the foundations of a dynamic, contentious hybrid metropolis.
Faber describes the vital individuals who played a role in New Orleans history: from the wealthy creole planters who dreaded the influx of revolutionary ideas, to the American arrivistes who combined idealistic visions of a new republican society with selfish dreams of quick plantation fortunes, to Thomas Jefferson himself, whose powerful democratic vision for Louisiana eventually conflicted with his equally strong sense of realpolitik and desire to strengthen the American union. Revealing how New Orleans was formed by America's greatest impulses and ambitions, Building the Land of Dreams is an inspired exploration of one of the world's most iconic cities.
目次
Notes on Terminology xi Introduction: The City and the Nation 1 1 Mississippi Schemes: The Making of a Colonial Elite, 1717-1803 23 2 New Orleans, 1803: Infant City under the Gaze of Three Empires 50 3 The Passion of Citizen Laussat: New Orleans Is Ceded from Spain to France to the United States 83 4 Pathways to the Place d'Armes: The Generation of 1804 118 5 Quel Triste Gouvernement: The Early Crisis of American Rule, 1804 155 6 Liberty in Louisiana: Accomplishments and Compromises of American Rule, 1804-1805 185 7 Creoles and Americans: Confrontations and Accommodations, 1805-1807 215 8 A Strong Case of Wanton Oppression: Livingston, the Corporation, the President, and the Batture 246 9 Creation of an Un-American Republic: Rebellion, Reaction, and the Anxious Road to Statehood 282 10 January 1815: Louisiana Is Still American 312 Appendix 1. New Orleans Exports, 1804-1820 343 Appendix 2. Parish Populations: White, Slave, and Free People of Color, 1810-1820 344 Abbreviations 347 Notes 349 Bibliography 401 Acknowledgments 425 Index 429
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