Bourbon Street [electronic resource] : a history / Richard Campanella.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Origins -- A straight line in a sinuous space : creating Rue Bourbon, 1682-1722 -- A streetscape emerges : Rue Bourbon and Calle Borbon, 1722-1803 -- A transect of antebellum society : ethnicity, race, class, and caste on Bourbon Street, 1803-1860 -- A smell so unsavory : managing Bourbon Street in the mid-1800s -- A place to "see the elephant" : antecedents of modern-day Bourbon Street -- Part II. Fame and infamy -- How Bourbon Street germinated : 1860s-1910s -- How Bourbon Street blossomed : 1910s-1920s -- How Bourbon Street flourished : late 1920s-mid-1940s -- How Bourbon Street exploded : late 1940s-early 1960s -- How Bourbon Street degenerated : late 1960s-1970s -- How Bourbon Street stabilized : 1980s-present -- Part III. Bourbon Street as a social artifact -- Locating Bourbon Street : why here? -- Working Bourbon Street : how the machine runs -- Challenging Bourbon Street : the rise of the anti-Bourbons -- Hating Bourbon Street : on iniquity and inauthenticity -- Replicating Bourbon Street : spatial and linguistic diffusion -- Redeeming Bourbon Street : the cheerful defiance of adversity.

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