Confederate cities : the urban South during the Civil War era /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Slap, Andrew L. (Editor), Towers, Frank (Editor), Goldfield, David R., 1944- (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Series:	Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:	Urbanization > Confederate States of America > History > 19th century. Cities and towns > Confederate States of America > History > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. Secession > Southern States.

Table of 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 ; "The Great Family of Nations": 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, 1865
1868 / Hilary N. Green
A new urban South 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.