Title Confederate cities : the urban South during the Civil War era / edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers ; with a foreword by David Goldfield

Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages) Series Historical studies of urban America Historical studies of urban America. Contents 1. Regionalism and urbanism as problems in Confederate urban history / J. Matthew Gallman -- 2. Urban processes in the Confederacy's development, experience, and consequences / David Moltke-Hansen -- 3. To be the "New York of the South": urban boosterism and the secession movement / Frank Towers -- 4. "The Great Family of Nations": gender and household metaphors in six mid-nineteenth-century nation-building cities / T. Lloyd Benson -- 5. Stephen Spalding's Fourth of July in New Orleans / Michael Pierson -- 6. "More like Amazons than starving people": women's urban riots in Georgia in 1863 / Keith S. Bohannon -- 7. African American veterans, the Memphis Regional, and the urbanization of the postwar South / Andrew L. Slap -- 8. Black political mobilization and the spatial transformation of Natchez / Justin Behrend -- 9. African Americans' struggle for education, citizenship, and freedom, 1865-1868 / Hilary N. Green -- 10. Invasion, destruction, and the remaking of Civil War Atlanta / William A. Link -- 11. 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 Summary "When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the North. Confederate Cities, edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers, shifts the focus from the agrarian economy that undergirded the South to the cities that served as its political and administrative hubs. The contributors use the lens of the city to examine now-familiar Civil War--era themes, including the scope of the war, secession, gender, emancipation, and war's destruction. This more integrative approach dramatically revises our understanding of slavery's relationship to capitalist economics and cultural modernity. By enabling a more holistic reading of the South, the book speaks to contemporary Civil War scholars and students alike--not least in providing fresh perspectives on a well-studied war"--Provided by publisher Notes Papers presented at a conference held in May 2012 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Urbanization -- Confederate States of America -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses Cities and towns -- Confederate States of America -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses Secession -- Southern States -- Congresses HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Cities and towns Secession Urbanization Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865 Stadtentwicklung SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Congresses Subject Southern States United States United States -- Confederate States of America Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Slap, Andrew L., editor. Towers, Frank, editor. Goldfield, David R., 1944- writer of foreword. ISBN 9780226300344 022630034X

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