Confederate cities : the urban South during the Civil War era / edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers ; with a foreword by David Goldfield.
| Other author | Slap, Andrew L., editor. |
| Other author | Towers, Frank editor. |
| Other author | Goldfield, David R., 1944- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | xiii, 302 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Urban South during the Civil War era |
| Series | Historical studies of urban America Historical studies of urban America. ^A372868 |
| Contents | The big picture. Regionalism and urbanism as problems in Confederate urban history / J. Matthew Gallman ; Urban processes in the confederacy's development, experience, and consequences / David Moltke-Hansen -- Secession. To be the "New York of the South": urban boosterism and the secession movement / Frank Towers / Gender and household metaphors in six mid-nineteenth-century nation-building cities / T. Lloyd Benson -- Gender. Stephen Spalding's Fourth of July in New Orleans / Michael Pierson ; "More like Amazons than starving people": women's urban riots in Georgia in 1863 / Keith S. Bohannon -- Emancipation. African American veterans, the Memphis Regional, and the urbanization of the postwar South / Andrew L. Slap ; Black political mobilization and the spatial transformation of Natchez / Justin Behrend ; African Americans' struggle for education, citizenship, and freedom, in mobile, Alabama, 1865 -- 1868 / Hilary N. Green -- A new urban Invasion, destruction, and the remaking of Civil War Atlanta / William A. Link ; Freeing the lavish hand of nature: environment and economy in nineteenth-century Hampton Roads / John Majewski -- Conclusion: cities and the history of the Civil War South / Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2015014450 |
| ISBN | 9780226300177 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022630017X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780226300207 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022630020X (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E487 .C66 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |