The Rise of the Urban South - Paperback

by Lawrence H. Larsen (Author)

Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the needs of their society. In this pioneering exploration of that intricate story, Lawrence H. Larsen shows that in the antebellum period, southern entrepreneurs built cities in layers to facilitate the movement of cotton. First came the colonial cities, followed by those of the piedmont, the New West,

Author Biography

Lawrence H. Larsen is professor of history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He is the author of The Urban West at the End of the Frontier and other books.