"Building the Devil's Empire" is the first comprehensive history
of New Orleans's early years, tracing the town's development from
its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768.
Shannon Lee Dawdy's picaresque account of New Orleans's wild youth
features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles,
sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens
her lens to reveal the port city's global significance, examining
its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes
that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism--where
governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined--New Orleans
should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism
works.
" A] penetrating study of the colony's founding."--"Nation"
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"A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of
French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the
city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the
North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major
contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas
and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of
interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing
together archival research, archaeology, and literary
analysis."--Laurent Dubois, Duke University
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