19世纪初新奥尔良的历史
1795年，新奥尔良是西班牙美洲帝国边缘一个沉睡的前哨。到19世纪20年代，这里充满了生机，堤坝上堆满了棉花和糖。新奥尔良已成为战前南方毋庸置疑的城市首府。在这个充满意识形态斗争、阶级政治和强大人物的非凡时期，《建设梦想之地》是一部讲述一座迷人城市在其历史上最关键转折点的传记。
埃伯哈德·费伯（Eberhard Faber）讲述了一个生动的故事，讲述了美国的统治如何迫使新奥尔良经历了一场巨大的转变：从等级制度和从属关系的有序殖民世界，到民主资本主义的流动、不可预测的混乱。从西班牙帝国到杰斐逊时代的美国，权力的变化改变了一切。当这座城市的多元化人群为过渡条款而挣扎时，他们为一个充满活力、充满争议的混合型大都市奠定了基础。费伯描述了在新奥尔良历史上发挥作用的重要人物：从害怕革命思想涌入的富有克里奥尔种植园主，到将新共和社会的理想主义愿景与快速种植园财富的自私梦想结合在一起的美国农民，再到托马斯·杰斐逊本人，他对路易斯安那州强大的民主愿景最终与他同样强烈的现实政治意识和加强美国联盟的愿望相冲突。
揭示了新奥尔良是如何由美国最伟大的冲动和野心形成的，建设梦想之地是对世界上最具标志性的城市之一的一次富有灵感的探索。
Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain’s American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, Building the Land of Dreams is the narrative biography of a fascinating city at the most crucial turning point in its history.
Eberhard Faber tells the vivid story of how American rule forced New Orleans through a vast transition: from the ordered colonial world of hierarchy and subordination to the fluid, unpredictable chaos of democratic capitalism. The change in authority, from imperial Spain to Jeffersonian America, transformed everything. As the city’s diverse people struggled over the terms of the transition, they built the foundations of a dynamic, contentious hybrid metropolis. Faber describes the vital individuals who played a role in New Orleans history: from the wealthy creole planters who dreaded the influx of revolutionary ideas, to the American arrivistes who combined idealistic visions of a new republican society with selfish dreams of quick plantation fortunes, to Thomas Jefferson himself, whose powerful democratic vision for Louisiana eventually conflicted with his equally strong sense of realpolitik and desire to strengthen the American union.
Revealing how New Orleans was formed by America’s greatest impulses and ambitions, Building the Land of Dreams is an inspired exploration of one of the world’s most iconic cities.
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