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Rating: 
Summary: Interesting Reading
Review: This historical book documents the city of New Orleans during the period 1800-1840 (but the bulk of the text concentrates on the period between 1820 and 1840). The topics covered are quite interesting and somewhat unusual, and the author uses a lot of actual newspaper articles, statistics, and personal accounts from the period. This book does a good job of capturing the everyday workings of the city, and covers a lot of information that I have never encountered before. Some of the chapter titles are: * The Levee, the Arks, and the Steamboats * The Advent of the Rail Road * Expanding Commerce * Banks, Booms and Depressions * Municipal Affairs * Political Squabbles * The Three Municipalities * Postal Service and Mail Routes * The Judiciary and the Bar * Police, Traffic Violation, Prisons, Executions * The Militia * A University is Born; The Progress of Education * Hospitals and Infirmaries * Yellow Fever * The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 * Orphans and Orphanages * Education, Libraries, The Historical Society * The Heterogeneous Population of New Orleans * Creoles * The American Infiltration * Catholicism; The Rise of Protestantism * Quadroons and Quadroon Balls * Slaves and Free Persons of Color * Amusements - Refined and Vulgar * The Theater * Morals and Vice * Swords and Duals * City of the Wet Grave * Funerals and Memorial Ceremonies Note: two "Glamour" period topics that are completely absent for the book are the Battle of New Orleans and Jean Lafitte.
Rating:
Summary: Interesting Reading
Review: This historical book documents the city of New Orleans during the period 1800-1840 (but the bulk of the text concentrates on the period between 1820 and 1840). The topics covered are quite interesting and somewhat unusual, and the author uses a lot of actual newspaper articles, statistics, and personal accounts from the period. This book does a good job of capturing the everyday workings of the city, and covers a lot of information that I have never encountered before. Some of the chapter titles are: * The Levee, the Arks, and the Steamboats * The Advent of the Rail Road * Expanding Commerce * Banks, Booms and Depressions * Municipal Affairs * Political Squabbles * The Three Municipalities * Postal Service and Mail Routes * The Judiciary and the Bar * Police, Traffic Violation, Prisons, Executions * The Militia * A University is Born; The Progress of Education * Hospitals and Infirmaries * Yellow Fever * The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 * Orphans and Orphanages * Education, Libraries, The Historical Society * The Heterogeneous Population of New Orleans * Creoles * The American Infiltration * Catholicism; The Rise of Protestantism * Quadroons and Quadroon Balls * Slaves and Free Persons of Color * Amusements - Refined and Vulgar * The Theater * Morals and Vice * Swords and Duals * City of the Wet Grave * Funerals and Memorial Ceremonies Note: two "Glamour" period topics that are completely absent for the book are the Battle of New Orleans and Jean Lafitte.
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