{"product_id":"the-making-of-new-orleans-from-french-colony-to-american-statehood-9798195142735","title":"The Making of New Orleans: From French Colony to American Statehood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gavin Benoit\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBefore New Orleans became America's most distinctive city, it was a colonial gamble built in blood, mud, water, and empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before statehood, long before the French Quarter became a symbol, New Orleans was a precarious outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi. Claimed by France, governed by Spain, shaped by Africa and the Caribbean, and transformed by trade, slavery, migration, and imperial rivalry, the city grew in a world older and more complex than the United States that would one day claim it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Making of New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Gavin Benoit traces the city's early development from unstable riverbank settlement to Louisiana statehood in 1812. Along the way, he explores the Indigenous world that preceded European rule, the brutal labor that built the colony, the rise of a Creole society, the impact of Spanish rule, the fires that remade the city, the refugee shockwaves of the Haitian Revolution, and the uneasy arrival of American power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than treating New Orleans as a place that suddenly appeared, Benoit shows how it was made through conflict, adaptation, survival, and the meeting of many worlds. The result is a vivid, carefully researched portrait of a city that became American without ever becoming entirely like America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid history of colonial New Orleans, Creole society, slavery, empire, and the road to statehood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882928291991,"sku":"9798195142735","price":1254.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195142735.webp?v=1781098125","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-making-of-new-orleans-from-french-colony-to-american-statehood-9798195142735","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}