The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square Book

Contents
THE SWAMP 1 Rock the City....................3
2 The Gift of the River....................8
COLONIZATION 3 Piety....................19
4 Louis, Louis....................28
5 Mardi Gras....................36
6 The Duke of Arkansas....................45
7 The Senegambian Period....................56
8 An Ear for Musick....................64
9 The Cabildo....................81
10 The Kongo Period....................106
11 The Eighteenth-Century Tango....................116
REVOLUTION 12 Desire....................133
13 The Sincerest Attachment....................148
14 Dance, Boatman, Dance....................161
15 Not Only as a Dance....................177
16 Bonaparte's Retreat....................191
PURCHASE 17 An Addition to Capital....................209
18 The Slave-Breeding Industry....................220
19 The French Quarter....................240
20 Bargainland....................263
21 A Most Extraordinary Noise....................271
CODA 22 We Won't Bow Down....................293
Acknowledgments....................314
Notes....................319
Bibliography....................327
Index....................343