Building the Land of Dreams
The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain''s American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and power...
The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain''s American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and power...
