Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg

by Steven Tripp

Book Overview

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order?
Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782051
• ISBN13: 9780814782057
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"