Building the devil's empire French colonial New Orleans / [electronic resource] :
Shannon Lee Dawdy.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- xxi, 320 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans (some col.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-306) and index.
"A veritable Babylon" : enlightenment and disorder -- La ville sauvage : nature and urban planning -- A backwater entrepôt -- La renommée : from colonial experiment to Creole society -- Tensions of power : law, discipline, and violence -- Conclusion : revolt and rogue colonialism.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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French--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--18th century. Ethnology--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--18th century. City planning--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--18th century.
New Orleans (La.)--History--18th century. New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--18th century. New Orleans (La.)--Colonial influence. New Orleans (La.)--Ethnic relations--History--18th century. Louisiana--History--To 1803.