The West Bank of greater New Orleans : a historical geography / Richard Campanella.

"The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception. It has been the Kansas, the Birmingham, the Norfolk, Atlanta, Pullman, and Fort Worth of the metropolis that is, its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad terminal, train manufacturer, and livestock hub. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campanella, Richard (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
West Bank (New Orleans, La.) > History.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions.
Neighborhoods > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Neighborhoods.
Social conditions.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 388 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part 1. Landscape formation, Prehistoric to 1860s
  • Sediment upon the sea, people upon the land
  • The colonial imperative
  • Entrepôt for contraband
  • The formation of villages
  • Canals, railroads, ships, and industry
  • Crescendo and calamity
  • Part 2. Landscape transformation, 1870s to 1940s
  • The political chessboard
  • A modern economy emerges
  • The battle for the Intracoastal Waterway
  • Landscape change in three acts
  • Flood, wind, and fire
  • Bridging the banks, draining the swamps
  • Booming times, bombastic visions
  • Part 3. Landscape suburbanization, 1950s to present
  • From subrural to suburban
  • Geographies of ethnicity, race, and class
  • Connecting the Crescent City
  • Troubles wash ashore
  • From suburbia to ethno-urbia
  • Cross-bank relations
  • The West Banks of the world.