Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War

"By focusing on and explaining 'the interaction between urbanization and the sectional politics of the slave South in the 1850s,' Frank Towers makes an original contribution to the historiography on the coming of the Civil War in his highlighting of the neglected story of the 'South's urban route to the Civil War.' He does so by closely examining the role of a growing white working class in reshaping the politics of the South's three largest cities, Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis.... [T]his is a significant study that deserves the attention of all Civil War scholars." - Civil War History"