Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans

by Nathalie Dessens

Book Overview

In Creole City, Nathalie Dessens opens a window onto antebellum New Orleans during a period of rapid expansion and dizzying change. Exploring previously neglected aspects of the city's early nineteenth-century history, Dessens examines how the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of New Orleans came to symbolize progress, adventure, and culture to so many.

Rooting her exploration in the Sainte-G me Family Papers harbored at The Historic New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813062187
• ISBN13: 9780813062181
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"