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- Title
Trading Spaces: Commerce, Ethnicityy and Early Irish New Orleans.
- Authors
CONDOTTA LEE, KRISTIN
- Abstract
This paper offers an examination of the Irish commercial population comprised of merchants, frontier traders, regional planters and shopkeepers living and working in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana between 1769 and 1820. Topics covered include economic appeal of New Orleans for Irish immigrants, role of kinship in the initial commercial networks of the immigrants, and the decision of many Irishmen to marry the female relatives of their professional associates to access new markets.
- Subjects
UNITED States; IRISH people; IMMIGRANTS; MERCHANTS; KINSHIP; MARRIAGES of convenience; HISTORY of commerce; HISTORY of New Orleans (La.); ETHNICITY
- Publication
Louisiana History, 2018, Vol 59, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
0024-6816
- Publication type
Article