| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ): illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, plans. |
| Series |
Lateral exchanges : architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
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Lateral exchanges.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-289) 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American architects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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African American architecture -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- 19th century.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Free African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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Free Black people -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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Architects and builders -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Civilization -- African influences.
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ARCHITECTURE / General. |
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Civilization -- African influences |
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African American architects |
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African American architecture |
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Architects and builders |
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Architecture |
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Free African Americans |
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Free Black people |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans |
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United States |
| Indexed Term |
New Orleans, architectural history, creole, built environment, Black history, American architectural history, American architecture, free people of color, American architectural history of the 19th-20th century, architecture, urban development, city planning, cultural geography, historic preservation. |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781477323021 1477323023 (DLC) 2020056880 (OCoLC)1201682424 |
| ISBN |
9781477323038 (electronic bk.) |
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1477323031 (electronic bk.) |
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9781477323021 |
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1477323023 |
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147732304X |
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9781477323045 (hbk.) (e-book) |
| Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 D865bu |
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