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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Steven Elliott Tripp. Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg. (The American Social Experience, number 36.) New York: New York University Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 344. $45.00.

Steven Elliott Tripp, the author of this thoroughly researched and prudently argued work, seeks to answer the age-old historiographical question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced antebellum southern race and class relations. No consensus has emerged, especially with respect to the issue of continuity or discontinuity, an increasingly tiresome question whose answers yield in diminishing returns. 1

Tripp's conclusion is inconclusive. It is clear, for example, that during the 1850s the adherence of working-class whites to the leadership of Lynchburg's elite began to unravel. Economic prosperity and the expansion of the working class, as well as the geographic growth of the city, resulted in the growing estrangement of whites. The separation of work and residence and the sorting out of class occurred in other cities, regardless of region, during this period. Although a broader comparative framework is beyond the scope of this work, Tripp could have done more to place Lynchburg within both an urban and a regional context. Such a rendering would enhance the value of a fine case study. . . .

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