{"product_id":"building-the-land-of-dreams-9780691180700","title":"Building the Land of Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the 2015 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Multicultural New Orleans maintains a mystique that stems from its unique development under governments of France, Spain, and Thomas Jefferson's U.S., argues musician-turned-history teacher Faber in this remarkable and thorough history.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"This well-researched snapshot of a brief period of the city's lengthy history richly details personalities and events, offering a valuable perspective to history students and anyone who has experienced the Crescent City's vibrant ways of life.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Faber explains how exotic New Orleans became somewhat less exotic after the Louisiana Purchase. . . . The author also provides information about the powerful individuals who were part of the transition.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"An original and complex analysis of New Orleans during that transformative period in its history and details the political and economic integration of the city into Jeffersonian America. . . . This book effectively presents an important, and hopefully provocative, historical, geographical, and political argument: the histories and geographies of New Orleans and the early United States are inseparable. Whatever their differences, compromises and common interests generally prevailed.\"\u003cb\u003e---Case Watkins, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Historical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched, vibrant, and passionately honest. . . . Historians of early Louisiana will be debating Faber's book for years to come.\"\u003cb\u003e---David E. Narrett, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Faber's book retires much of the folklore embedded in New Orleans's historiography.\"\u003cb\u003e---George Edward Milne, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book . . . joins a formidable scholarship on political re-imaginings following the Louisiana Purchase. . . . [\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Land of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e] shows an intimate sensitivity to chronology, tracing the ways events communicated with each other on tight timelines. . . . Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Land of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the ways New Orleans and the early American republic entered the antebellum period in tandem, informing one another on issues of slavery, expansionism, and national identity.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kristin Condotta Lee, \u003ci\u003eRegister of the Kentucky Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America\u003c\/i\u003e, Eberhard L. Faber has significantly improved our understanding of the complexity of early national Louisiana.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael K. Beauchamp, \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403856617815,"sku":"9780691180700","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691180700.jpg?v=1730484734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/building-the-land-of-dreams-9780691180700","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}