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Confederate Cities - The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Paperback)
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Confederate Cities - The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Paperback)
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
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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.
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