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Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence
- Title
- Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence / Tara A. Dudley.
- Author
- Dudley, Tara A.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
- Uniform Title
- Lateral exchanges.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- African American architects > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century
- African American architecture > Louisiana > New Orleans > 19th century
- Architecture > United States > History > 19th century
- Free African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century
- Free Black people > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century
- Architects and builders > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century
- African American architects
- African American architecture
- Architects and builders
- Architecture
- Free African Americans
- Free Black people
- New Orleans (La.) > Civilization > African influences
- Louisiana > New Orleans
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Ownership: possessing the built environment. The gens de couleur libres' acquisition of property -- The ramifications of use and location -- Part II. Engagement: forming and transforming the built environment. The architecture of the Dolliole and Soulié families -- "Uncommon industry": gens de couleur libres builders in antebellum New Orleans -- "Raised to the trade": building practices of gens de couleur libres builders in antebellum New Orleans -- The status quo: French, Creole, and Anglo builders and architects in antebellum New Orleans -- Part III. Entrepreneurship: controlling the built environment. Money, power, and status in the building trades -- Conclusion. The gens de couleur libres' development of self and group identity through ownership, formation, transformation, and control of the built environment.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-552
- ISBN
- 9781477323021
- 1477323023
- LCCN
- 2020056880
- OCLC
- 1201682424
- Author
- Dudley, Tara A., author.
- Title
- Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence / Tara A. Dudley.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practicesLateral exchanges.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-552