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Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence /
"Building Antebellum New Orleans examines the architectural activities of New Orleans's gens de couleur libres--free people of color with a mixture of black and European, usually French or Spanish, ancestry. Architectural historian Tara Dudley focuses on their influence on the physical gro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2021.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Lateral exchanges.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Building Antebellum New Orleans examines the architectural activities of New Orleans's gens de couleur libres--free people of color with a mixture of black and European, usually French or Spanish, ancestry. Architectural historian Tara Dudley focuses on their influence on the physical growth of New Orleans and on the historical, cultural, and economic implications of their contributions to nineteenth-century American architecture"-- "The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city's most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres--free people of color--in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Soulǐs, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley recreates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture." -- Publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ): illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, plans. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477323038 1477323031 147732304X 9781477323045 |