Confederate cities : the urban South during the Civil War era / edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers ; with a foreword by David Goldfield.

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 & Frank Towers.

Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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