New Orleans in the Atlantic World (eBook, ePUB)

Between Land and Sea
Redaktion: Boelhower, William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317988434
• Artikelnr.: 58399688

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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