NEW ORLEANS, THE FOUNDING ERA

NEW ORLEANS, THE FOUNDING ERA $50.00 New Orleans, the Founding EraThe Historic New Orleans Collection 2018hardcover • 8.25" x 10.25" • 176 pp.70 color imagesISBN 978-0-917860-74-4On the occasion of the tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans, this groundbreaking exhibition catalog celebrates the diversity of the city’s earliest populations.New Orleans, the Founding Era gathers contributions from eight leading scholars of the French Atlantic World and features an illustrated checklist of artifacts from public and private collections across France, Spain, Canada, and the United States. This dual-language publication from The Historic New Orleans Collection explores the ideas, peoples, and material cultures that shaped one of the most complex and challenging colonization projects in the Americas.Louisiana in the early eighteenth century experienced an intense period of immigration as nearly six thousand French- and German-speaking Europeans and a roughly equal number of ensla