American city, southern place
Subtitle: a cultural history of antebellum Richmond
By: Gregg D. Kimball.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century; Richmond (Va.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Richmond (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Description: "Gregg D. Kimball expands the usual scope of urban studies by depicting the Richmond community as a series of dynamic, overlapping networks to show how various groups of Richmonders understood themselves and their society. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and private letters, Kimball elicits new perspectives regarding people's sense of identity.".

"This work ultimately reveals how Richmonders' self-perceptions influenced the decisions they made during the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, showing that people made rational choices about their allegiances based on established beliefs. American City, Southern Place is an important work of social history that sheds new light on cultural identity and opens a new window on nineteenth-century Richmond."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: Richmond in the 1850o; title: Chapter I. Capital and Commercial City, 3; title: Chapter 2. American City in a Southern Place, 37; title: PART TWO: Connections and Consciousness; title: Chapter3. The World of Goods, 83; title: Chapter4. Liberty and Slavery, 124; title: Chapter 5. Strangers, Slaves, and Southern Iron, 159; title: Chapter 6. Virginia and Union, 183; title: PART THREE: Choosing Sides; title: Chapter 7. The War Within, 217; title: Epilogue. The Antebellum Legacy, 253; title: Notes, 263; title: Bibliography, 315; title: Index, 329.