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
PublicationChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxiii, 302 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Urban South during the Civil War era
SeriesHistorical 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015014450
ISBN9780226300177 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN022630017X (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780226300207 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN022630020X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN(ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks E487 .C66 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold