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Confederate cities : the urban South during the Civil War era /
"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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Historical studies of urban America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.