Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction: Historians and the Urban South’s Civil War 1
6. Part One: The Big Picture
7. 1. Regionalism and Urbanism as Problems in Confederate Urban History 27
8. 2. Urban Processes in the Confederacy’s Development, Experience, and Consequences 46
9. Part Two: Secession
10. 3. To Be the “New York of the South”: Urban Boosterism and the Secession Movement 77
11. 4. Gender and Household Metaphors in Mid-Nineteenth- Century Nation-Building Cities 99
12. Part Three: Gender
13. 5. Stephen Spalding’s Fourth of July in New Orleans 125
14. 6. “More like Amazons than starving people”: Women’s Urban Riots in Georgia in 1863 147
15. Part Four: Emancipation
16. 7. African American Veterans, the Memphis Region, and the Urbanization of the Postwar South 171
17. 8. Black Political Mobilization and the Spatial Transformation of Natchez 190
18. 9. African Americans’ Struggle for Education, Citizenship, and Freedom, in Mobile, Alabama, 1865–1868 215
19. Part Five: A New Urban South
20. 10. Invasion, Destruction, and the Remaking of Civil War Atlanta 239
21. 11. Freeing the Lavish Hand of Nature: Environment and Economy in Nineteenth-Century Hampton Roads 261
22. Conclusion: Cities and the History of the Civil War South 286
23. Contributors 291
24. Index 295