The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

by Lawrence N. Powell

Book Overview

"Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans's first century." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725905
• ISBN13: 9780674725904
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"