New Orleans in the Atlantic World: Between Land and Sea
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Description
The thematic project 'New Orleans in the Atlantic World' was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city's identity and destiny belong to the broader Caribbean and Atlantic worlds as perhaps no other American city does. Balanced precariously between land and sea, the city's geohistory has always interwoven diverse cultures, languages, peoples, and economies. Only with the rise of the new Atlantic Studies matrix, however, have scholars been able to fully appreciate this complex history from a multi-disciplinary, multilingual and multi-scaled perspectivism. In this book, historians, geographers, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars bring to light the atlanticist vocation of New Orleans, and in doing so they also help to define the new field of Atlantic Studies.
This book was published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
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LOC Call Number
F379 .N57 N486 2010
ISBN
9780415554329
Publication Date
2010
Department
Comparative Literature (Interdepartmental Program)
Publisher
Routledge
City
London
Recommended Citation
Boelhower, William Q., "New Orleans in the Atlantic World: Between Land and Sea" (2010).