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African
Atlantic
Author_Nathalie Dessens
capitalism
Caribbean
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city
correspondence
cosmopolitan
creole
Creole City
creolization
Crescent City
crime
disease
duel
economy
environment
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Europe
exile
France
free blacks
geography
Gulf Coast
Haitian Revolution
Henre de Sainte-Geme
history
Jean Boze
Latin America
letters
Louisiana
merchant
Mississippi River
Nathalie Dessens
North America
port city
progress
refugee
Sainte Domingue
sanitation
slave
South
sugar
transatlantic
United States
urban expansion
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062181
- Weight: 433g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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-Gême Family Papers harbored at The Historic New Orleans Collection, Dessens follows the twenty-year correspondence of Jean Boze to Henri de Ste-Gême, both refugees from Saint-Domingue. Through Boze’s letters, written between 1818 and 1839, readers witness the convergence and merging of cultural attitudes as new arrivals and old colonial populations collide, sparking transformations in the economic, social, and political structures of the city. This Creolization of the city is thus revealed to be at the very heart of New Orleans’s early identity and made this key hub of Atlantic trade so very distinct from other nineteenth-century American metropolises.
Dessens’s portrayal of this seminal period is innovative and crucial to understanding the city’s rich history and unique culture.
Rooting her exploration in the Sainte-Gême Family Papers harbored at The Historic New Orleans Collection, Dessens follows the twenty-year correspondence of Jean Boze to Henri de Ste-Gême, both refugees from Saint-Domingue. Through Boze’s letters, written between 1818 and 1839, readers witness the convergence and merging of cultural attitudes as new arrivals and old colonial populations collide, sparking transformations in the economic, social, and political structures of the city. This Creolization of the city is thus revealed to be at the very heart of New Orleans’s early identity and made this key hub of Atlantic trade so very distinct from other nineteenth-century American metropolises.
Dessens’s portrayal of this seminal period is innovative and crucial to understanding the city’s rich history and unique culture.
