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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790947403321

Autore

Ezzell Tim

Titolo

Chattanooga, 1865-1900 : a city set down in Dixie / / Tim Ezzell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, Tennessee : , : University of Tennessee Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-62190-018-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

973.7/359

Soggetti

Chattanooga (Tenn.) History 19th century

Chattanooga (Tenn.) Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The spoils of war: Chattanooga to 1870 -- "This embryo city": Chattanooga's postwar economy and society -- "Fireworks and flapdoodle": municipal government in the 1870's -- "An honest, fearless press": Adolph S. Ochs and the rise of the Chattanooga Times -- Bummers, blacks, and bourbons: municipal politics, 1880-1885 -- "Shout for glory": the boom of the 1880's -- "A choice of evils": city politics, 1885-1892 -- "Desperate times" and "Desperate remedies": the bust of the 1890's.