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Chattanooga, 1865-1900 : A City Set Down in Dixie /

After the Civil War, the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, forged a different path than most southern urban centers. Long a portal to the Deep South, Chattanooga was largely rebuilt by northern men, using northern capital, and imbued with northern industrial values. As such, the city served as a cultu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ezzell, Tim
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2013.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • The spoils of war: Chattanooga to 1870
  • "This embryo city": Chattanooga's postwar economy and society
  • "Fireworks and flapdoodle": municipal government in the 1870s
  • "An honest, fearless press": Adolph S. Ochs and the rise of the Chattanooga Times
  • Bummers, blacks, and bourbons: municipal politics, 1880-1885
  • "Shout for glory": the boom of the 1880s
  • "A choice of evils": city politics, 1885-1892
  • "Desperate times" and "Desperate remedies": the bust of the 1890s.