The urban South and the coming of the Civil War
By: Frank Towers.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Secession -- Southern States; City and town life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Southern States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects; Baltimore (Md.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century; New Orleans (La.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
Description: "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 largest cities - Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The specter of mob rule : secessionists and the Southern metropolis; title: From urban paternalism to free labor : the reconfiguration of the social order, 1800-1860; title: Reform and slavery : the realignment of Jacksonian parties, 1846-1855; title: Southern free-labor politics : workers and the urban opposition, 1856-1859; title: A revolution against party politics : reform and secession in Baltimore.