| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Savannah in the Old South. By Walter J. Fraser Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xvi, 423 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2436-1.)
Savannah was the last major city established in colonial America, and it quickly emerged as one of its most distinctive and most beautiful. As capital of Georgia, the thirteenth and final of Britain's North American colonies, Savannah's population remained small—it consisted of only about five thousand residents in 1800—and yet its economic and political impact on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was considerable, as was its strategic importance in American wars from the Revolution to the Civil War.	1
While the monographic and article-length scholarship on Savannah is abundant and several popular histories remain current, Walter J. Fraser Jr.'s is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of the city's past. Like his Charleston! Charleston! (1989), this is a richly detailed, readable portrait of a complex community. Fraser's time frame is far greater than the book's title suggests; he begins with the Indian trading center established on the Carolina side of the Savannah River in the late seventeenth century and ends with William T. Sherman's occupation of the city late in the Civil War. First and foremost a social and cultural history, Fraser's book is as multifaceted as any full-fledged urban history must be, with the city's economic and political—and military—experiences fully integrated into the narrative.	. . .

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