New Orleans in the Atlantic World - Between Land and Sea

Informationen zum Autor William Boelhower is currently Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of Atlantic Studies at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He is a co-editor of the journal Atlantic Studies and co-editor of the Routledge Atlantic Studies book series. Klappentext This book combines an in-depth look at a unique American city with an appreciative awareness of its special place in the Caribbean and Atlantic worlds. This book was published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies. Zusammenfassung This book combines an in-depth look at a unique American city with an appreciative awareness of its special place in the Caribbean and Atlantic worlds. This book was published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1 1. Introduction William Boelhower 2. Unheralded Contributions Across the Atlantic World Jay D. Edwards 3. Meaning of Water in the American South: Transatlantic Encounters Craig E. Colten 4. Greater Louisiana Connections and Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in an Atlantic Time-Geographic Perspective Kent Mathewson 5. White Lies: Human Property and Domestic Slavery Aboard the Slave Ship 'Creole' Walter Johnson 6. Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean Adam Rothman 7. History from Below the Water Line: Sharks and the Atlantic Slave Trade Marcus Rediker Section 2 8. Introduction William Boelhower 9. Locating the Isle of Orleans: Atlantic and American Historiographical Perspectives Mark L. Thompson 10. Slave Trade Merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803: Clarifying the Colonial Slave Trade to Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective Douglas B. Chambers 11. ‘Keep Alive the Powers of Africa’: Katherine Dunham, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren, and the circum-Caribbean Culture of Vodoun Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 12. Placing Louisiana in the Francophone World: Opportunities and Challenges Alexander B. Murphy 13. (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method and Meaning Andrew Sluyter ...

Product details

• Authors: William Boelhower
• Assisted by: William Boelhower (Editor), Boelhower William (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9780415554329
• ISBN: 978-0-415-55432-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, History of the Americas, The Americas, Regional, state and other local government, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General