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America’s most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city’s history from its founding through statehood.
(20120201)著者について
Lawrence N. Powell holds the James H. Clark Endowed Chair in American Civilization and is Director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University.
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27 人中、25人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Can't put it down
2012/3/28
形式:ハードカバー
I visited New Orleans last week. It felt like no one could really tell me the nerdy, detailed history of the place. Tour guides glossed over details. Locals had great "local color" of recent decades, which is certainly valuable. But this book is the answer to a question that I think many have been asking. The women at the local bookstore told me, "We've needed this book for a while." I can't wait to read the rest. Sitting down for another 50-70 page sitting now.
Note: you need some resilience as an academic reader to get through this. It's dense, and you need to be willing to let certain details fall by the wayside as you pick-up on the most important ones, constructing a narrative in your first reading. After that, go back and dig in deeper if you wish.
Note: you need some resilience as an academic reader to get through this. It's dense, and you need to be willing to let certain details fall by the wayside as you pick-up on the most important ones, constructing a narrative in your first reading. After that, go back and dig in deeper if you wish.
4 人中、4人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A lively and beautifully written history of early New Orleans
2012/4/11
形式:ハードカバー
The knowledge of the first 100 years of New Orleans history is usually confined to a few well-known facts: it was founded by Bienville, owned by France, the French Quarter was burned and rebuilt by Spain who owned it at the time, then later transferred to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
This wonderful book shines a light on those obscure years and makes this early history come to life with lively prose and stunningly beautiful passages. So interesting I didn't want it to end.
I live in New Orleans, born and raised here. This detailed, well-crafted book is a delight to read, not a trudging chore as some history books are. If you really want to find out about why New Orleans is the way it is, and why it's here on the edge of a swamp, stuck on a ridge along one of the world's most powerful rivers this book is a must-read.
This wonderful book shines a light on those obscure years and makes this early history come to life with lively prose and stunningly beautiful passages. So interesting I didn't want it to end.
I live in New Orleans, born and raised here. This detailed, well-crafted book is a delight to read, not a trudging chore as some history books are. If you really want to find out about why New Orleans is the way it is, and why it's here on the edge of a swamp, stuck on a ridge along one of the world's most powerful rivers this book is a must-read.
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The Best Book About New Orleans' First Century
2012/5/12
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Lawrence Powell has produced easily the best history of New Orleans' first century. Lively, witty (but not too precious) and deeply insightful, this is a prime future textbook. Students of African-American history would do well to buy and devour this book. No where else have I found a better explanation for the evolution of New Orleanians of color, up until the battle of New Orleans, which is the stopping point. The foundations of the factors defining New Orleans' current character -insularity, special pleading, ancient pride, generosity, creativity, racial ambiguity and tolerance in equal measures- are well explored.
I have read many of the current breed of histories which recast and repeat the same arguments again and again. I thought that this book was one of those until I finished it, and realized that the book's arguments are repeated because the same arguments reappear again and again in New Orleans history.
I have read many of the current breed of histories which recast and repeat the same arguments again and again. I thought that this book was one of those until I finished it, and realized that the book's arguments are repeated because the same arguments reappear again and again in New Orleans history.
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