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Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans (1st Edition) by Shannon Lee Dawdy Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-226-13842-9 / 0226138429 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13842-8 / 9780226138428 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 captive |