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The urban South and the coming of the Civil War / Frank Towers.
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- Author/Creator:
- Towers, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secession--Southern States.
- Secession.
- Race relations.
- City and town life.
- History.
- Southern States.
- City and town life--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Working class--Political activity--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Working class.
- Working class--Political activity.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- Politics and government.
- Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Baltimore (Md.)--Politics and government--19th century.
- Baltimore (Md.).
- Saint Louis (Mo.)--Politics and government--19th century.
- Saint Louis (Mo.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Politics and government--19th century.
- New Orleans (La.).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 285 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South's urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South's three larges cities - Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis.
- Contents:
- The specter of mob rule : secessionists and the Southern metropolis
- From urban paternalism to free labor : the reconfiguration of the social order, 1800-1860
- Reform and slavery : the realignment of Jacksonian parties, 1846-1855
- Southern free-labor politics : workers and the urban opposition, 1856-1859
- A revolution against party politics : reform and secession in Baltimore.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813922976
- OCLC:
- 55085787
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