Cities as Settings: The Civil War Era in the Urban South.
In: Journal of Urban History, Jg. 49 (2023), Heft 1, S. 221-227
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Simultaneously, it made cities, which were now indicative of their region not exceptional to it, more relevant as sites for studying the critical issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction.[2] The first development decreased urbanists' interest in the nineteeth-century South and the second one made the older framework for studying southern cities less relevant for historians of the Civil War era. That is, rather than simply present another set of local variables for understanding the Civil War era's main dramas, cities-acting through their physical, economic, and administrative structures - may have created new identities and power dynamics that transcended those of the pre-war era. Keywords: slavery; emancipation; industry; memory; Civil War; Reconstruction EN slavery emancipation industry memory Civil War Reconstruction 221 227 7 11/11/22 20230101 NES 230101 Wilson, Harold S. (2002). I use the use the word "odd" because the renewed interest in the cities of the South originates from historians trained and invested in the major questions of the Civil War era, not from urban historians per se. [Extracted from the article]
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Cities as Settings: The Civil War Era in the Urban South.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Towers, Frank |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of Urban History, Jg. 49 (2023), Heft 1, S. 221-227 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
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ISSN: | 0096-1442 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/00961442211043514 |
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