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Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean

La Nueva Orleans y la Caribe Espanoles
  • ISBN-13: 9780917860812
  • Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
    Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
  • By Alfred E. Lemmon
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/04/2021
  • Format: Hardback (254.00mm X 203.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]
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New Orleans thrived under Spanish rule (1762–1803), linked through trade and empire to the nerve centers of the circum-Caribbean. Curator Alfred E. Lemmon’s introduction explores the far-reaching ways in which the Spanish influence is evident in the city to this day, in architecture, agriculture, science, and the arts. Two additional essays by noted scholars examine other facets of the city’s development during this period: Light Townsend Cummins reflects on the city’s role as an outpost of the Enlightenment in the Americas, while Richard Campanella explores the growth of city planning and urbanism. The Spanish period saw shifts in the legal landscape surrounding slavery, as well as the dramatic growth of the city’s population of free people of color. The daily lives of New Orleanians, and the city’s constant interaction with the Caribbean and the greater Spanish empire, are documented in the surviving examples of material culture, maps, manuscripts, and artworks presented here.
Alfred E. Lemmon is director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. He holds a doctorate in Latin American studies from Tulane University. An authority on French and Spanish colonial cultural history, he has been published in numerous books, encyclopedias, and scholarly journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.Light Townsend Cummins is the Guy M. Bryan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Austin College. He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas, he is the former State Historian of Texas.Richard Campanella, senior professor of practice at the Tulane School of Architecture, is the author of ten books and over 200 other publications on New Orleans and Louisiana geography, history, architecture, urbanism, culture, and related topics.
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