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This Collection Of Six Original Essays Explores The Peculiar Ethnic Composition And History Of New Orleans, Which The Authors Persuasively Argue Is Unique Among American Cities. The Focus Of Creole New Orleans Is On The Development Of A Colonial Franco-african Culture In The City, The Ways That Culture Was Influenced By The Arrival Of Later Immigrants, And The Processes That Led To The Eventual Dominance Of The Anglo-american Community. Essays In The Book's First Section Focus Not Only On The Formation Of The Curiously Blended Franco-african Culture But Also On How That Culture, Once Established, Resisted Change And Allowed New Orleans To Develop Along French And African Creole Lines Until The Early Nineteenth Century. Jerah Johnson Explores The Motives And Objectives Of Louisiana's French Founders, Giving That Issue The Most Searching Analysis It Has Yet Received.^ Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, In Her Account Of The Origins Of New Orleans' Free Black Population, Offers A New Approach To The Early History Of Africans In Colonial Louisiana. The Second Part Of The Book Focuses On The Challenge Of Incorporating New Orleans Into The United States. As Paul F. Lachance Points Out, The French Imm

Author

Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807117743

Subjects

Sociology, History, Anthropology