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In Patina, anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy examines what was lost and found through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Tracking the rich history and unique physicality of New Orleans, she explains how it came to adopt the nickname "the antique...

"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 s wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city s global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism where governments,...