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Alexandria on the Potomac
Harold W. Hurst
其他書名
The Portrait of an Antebellum Community
出版
University Press of America
, 1991
主題
History / United States / General
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN
0819182400
9780819182401
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vcxX36Ffs2cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This book is both the unique story of Alexandria before the Civil War and a comprehensive portrait of a seaboard antebellum community in transition. It depicts the economic, political, social, cultural and religious life of the city on the Potomac, emphasizing developments from the mid-1840s to the outbreak of war in 1861. The pages therein not only describe local happenings; they endeavor to relate events in the town with developments in other seaboard communities, especially in the South. Special attention is given to the class structure of the community and the prominent role which merchants and civic leaders played, as well as the part of ordinary people in the city's portrait.