Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era by Slap, Andrew L.

Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226300177)

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Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era by Slap, Andrew L.

Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era

$99.00
Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era by Slap, Andrew L.

Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Andrew L. Slap
ISBN-10: 022630017X
ISBN-13: 9780226300177
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2015
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d

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Choice 05/01/2016
By Andrew L. Slap
By Andrew L. Slap
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Andrew L. Slap is professor of history at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era and editor of Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath. Frank Towers is associate professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War and coeditor of The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress.

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