The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo SquareChicago Review Press, 1.01.2008 г. - 368 страници STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance.
The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&”
This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities. |
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... France, and England, along with their respective New World colonies of Cuba, Saint- Domingue, and Virginia. My story begins in 1492, in Roman Catholic Europe. Four Spanish silver coins : I. ca. 1545 : A THE GIFT OF THE RIVER 13.
... Virginia , in 1619.2 Snatched from a Veracruz - bound ship that had embarked at the Angolan port of Luanda , this cargo of " 20. and odd Negroes " quite possibly included people from up the African coast in Kongo as well as those from ...
... Virginia slaves diverted en route to the Spanish colonies. Some early Virginia planters went up to Dutch Man- hattan to buy their slaves, while others bought from Barbados, making for a mix in Virginia of African and seasoned slaves ...
... Virginia, named for Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. They had no interest in going to a territory named for Louis XIV, nor had they been invited. h. Three years after he enraged Protestant Europe with his persecution LOUIS, LOUIS 33.
... Virginia . Louisiana could grow tobacco for this expanding domestic market . Orléans went for it . Crozat was relieved to be quit of the colony , giving up his rights to it after five years , during which he had lost some 1.2 million ...