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20%OFFAndrew L. Slap (Ed.) - Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Historical Studies of Urban America) - 9780226300207 - V9780226300207
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Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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Description for Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Historical Studies of Urban America) Paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226300207
SKU
V9780226300207
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About Andrew L. Slap (Ed.)
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 ... Read more

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