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  The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

  by Ned Sublette

  Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune .   Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.   New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always... (more)
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  Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans

  by Richard Campanella