Lawrence N. Powell
Auteur van The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
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Lawrence N. Powell, a former holder of the James H. Clark Endowed Chair, is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University.
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- University of Maryland (BA|History|1967)
Yale University (MPhil|History|1972)
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The theme of The Accidental City is that New Orleans was an unlikely outcome of conflicting forces and outsized personalities. Very close readings of politically expedient marriages and French court intrigues are this history’s strength. Never was there a more obvious illustration that inner workings at power centers can have profound effects on far flung places like New Orleans, which was at the epicenter of European struggle for dominance among Spaniards, French, and English. The Accidental City is also good at tracing the effect of San Domingo and the slave rebellion of Toussaint L’Ouverture on the whole Caribbean trade.
All in all, I would deem it a solid work marred by a pompous tone and the occasional imposition of a form of cultural analysis decidedly academic, politically correct, and anachronistic.
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