Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans by Shannon Lee Dawdy

Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans

Shannon Lee Dawdy

344 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative slow-paced
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Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans’...

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