| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond. By Gregg D. Kimball. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxvi, 345 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-2234-2.)

Gregg D. Kimball offers a rich study of Richmond's antebellum society and culture that explores the manners, styles, and outlooks of its inhabitants. He reveals Richmond's diverse urban culture through the stories of the men and women of the native-born merchant and manufacturing elite, German artisans and shopkeepers, British ironworkers, and enslaved black workers as well as free. Such diversity made antebellum Richmond a complex place, much like the fast-growing commercial cities of the North at midcentury. Consequently, Richmonders did not possess a single identity that might be characterized as southern. Instead, they constructed multiple identities shaped by the cultural, economic, and social relationships created in the city's hotels, churches, workshops, parade grounds, and countinghouses. In this complexity and diversity, antebellum Richmond possessed the elements of American urban culture. . . .

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