Frank Towers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Towers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Towers |
| SIGNATURE | TOWERS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Democratic Collapse
Reviewed by: The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser Frank Towers (bio) The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861. By Lauren N. Haumesser. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 230. Paper, $27.95.) Lauren Haumesser’s thought-provoking study of the late 1850s Democratic Party makes an important contribution to the study …
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South
In the decades following Eric Foner's Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, which synthesized revisions to the Lost Cause narrative of Dunning school, scholars have expanded the scope of Reconstruction studies and debated its emancipatory potential. Among these new avenues of inquiry, Southern cities have undergone a quiet renaissance as settings for studying the period's larger themes, particularly the South's economic recovery and the Afric…
Cities as Settings
Apostle of Union
December 01 2017 Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett. By MatthewMason. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 448. $39.95.) Frank Towers Frank Towers Frank Towers is associate professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War and co-editor of two books, The Old South's Mo…
Secession Winter
John F. Kvach. De Bow's Review
John F. Kvach's biography of James Dunwoody Brownson (J. D. B.) De Bow, perhaps the best-known antebellum booster of southern industrialization, is a timely contribution to the growing literature on the modernity of the pre–Civil War South. Although historians frequently use De Bow's writings as sources for exploring the proslavery path to a modern economy, more than 50 years have passed since the last publication of a De Bow biography. Since the…
MAX GRIVNO. Gleanings of Freedom
Journal Article Max Grivno. Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860. Get access Max Grivno. Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2011. Pp. xiii, 269. $50.00. Frank Towers Frank Towers University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The Failure of Popular Sovereignty
Journal Article The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics Get access The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. By Christopher Childers. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. xiv, 334 pp. $39.95.) Frank Towers Frank Towers University of CalgaryCalgary, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this au…
Partisans, New History, and Modernization
The Old South's modern worlds
Introduction Reimagining the Old South- L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers Part One: The South in a World of Nations Part Two: Slavery in a Modernizing Society Part Three: Material Progress and Its Discontents Part Four: The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture Part Five: The Long View of the Old South Afterword -Michael O'Brien (University of Cambridge) Conclusion The Future of the Old South- L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Fra…
Balancing the Local and the Global
Before arriving at the University of Calgary in the western Canadian province of Alberta in 2004, I taught Civil War history in the United States and in Turkey. My earlier experience cautions me against making too much of the national educational setting at the expense of issues that transcend a particular country. The local and national context that students bring to the classroom influences teaching and educates the instructor as much as the st…
Civil War Petersburg
Few wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. Nonetheless, the city has, until now, lacked an adequate military history, let alone a history of the civilian home front. The noted Civil War historian, A. Wilson Greene now provides an expertly researched, eloquently written study of the city that was second only to Richmond in size and strategic significance. Industrial, commercial, and extremely prosperous, Petersburg was al…
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South's urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South's three largest cities - Baltimore, New Orl…
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Frank Towers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Interview with Frank Towers Interview by Frank Winter Hardie Civil War Book Review (CWBR): What initially drew you to study the social aspects of the South?
A Perfect War of Politics
Confederate Homefront
Confederate Homefront: Montgomery during Civil War. By William Warren Rogers, Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 209. $29.95.) William Warren Rogers' Confederate Homefront makes a valuable contribution to emerging picture of life behind Civil War's battle lines. It will be especially prized by those interested in social world ardent Confederates made for themselves in areas safe from federal occupiers. The book considers…
Job Busting at Baltimore Shipyards
Paul Goodman — Of One Blood
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Projecting Whiteness
Balancing the Local and the Global
Before arriving at the University of Calgary in the western Canadian province of Alberta in 2004, I taught Civil War history in the United States and in Turkey. My earlier experience cautions me against making too much of the national educational setting at the expense of issues that transcend a particular country. The local and national context that students bring to the classroom influences teaching and educates the instructor as much as the st…
Projecting Whiteness
Paul Goodman — Of One Blood
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Confederate Homefront
Confederate Homefront: Montgomery during Civil War. By William Warren Rogers, Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 209. $29.95.) William Warren Rogers' Confederate Homefront makes a valuable contribution to emerging picture of life behind Civil War's battle lines. It will be especially prized by those interested in social world ardent Confederates made for themselves in areas safe from federal occupiers. The book considers…
Job Busting at Baltimore Shipyards
A Perfect War of Politics
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Frank Towers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Interview with Frank Towers Interview by Frank Winter Hardie Civil War Book Review (CWBR): What initially drew you to study the social aspects of the South?
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South's urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South's three largest cities - Baltimore, New Orl…
Civil War Petersburg
Few wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. Nonetheless, the city has, until now, lacked an adequate military history, let alone a history of the civilian home front. The noted Civil War historian, A. Wilson Greene now provides an expertly researched, eloquently written study of the city that was second only to Richmond in size and strategic significance. Industrial, commercial, and extremely prosperous, Petersburg was al…
Balancing the Local and the Global
Before arriving at the University of Calgary in the western Canadian province of Alberta in 2004, I taught Civil War history in the United States and in Turkey. My earlier experience cautions me against making too much of the national educational setting at the expense of issues that transcend a particular country. The local and national context that students bring to the classroom influences teaching and educates the instructor as much as the st…
Partisans, New History, and Modernization
The Old South's modern worlds
Introduction Reimagining the Old South- L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers Part One: The South in a World of Nations Part Two: Slavery in a Modernizing Society Part Three: Material Progress and Its Discontents Part Four: The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture Part Five: The Long View of the Old South Afterword -Michael O'Brien (University of Cambridge) Conclusion The Future of the Old South- L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Fra…
MAX GRIVNO. Gleanings of Freedom
Journal Article Max Grivno. Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860. Get access Max Grivno. Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2011. Pp. xiii, 269. $50.00. Frank Towers Frank Towers University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The Failure of Popular Sovereignty
Journal Article The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics Get access The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. By Christopher Childers. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. xiv, 334 pp. $39.95.) Frank Towers Frank Towers University of CalgaryCalgary, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this au…
Secession Winter
John F. Kvach. De Bow's Review
John F. Kvach's biography of James Dunwoody Brownson (J. D. B.) De Bow, perhaps the best-known antebellum booster of southern industrialization, is a timely contribution to the growing literature on the modernity of the pre–Civil War South. Although historians frequently use De Bow's writings as sources for exploring the proslavery path to a modern economy, more than 50 years have passed since the last publication of a De Bow biography. Since the…
Apostle of Union
December 01 2017 Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett. By MatthewMason. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 448. $39.95.) Frank Towers Frank Towers Frank Towers is associate professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War and co-editor of two books, The Old South's Mo…
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South
In the decades following Eric Foner's Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, which synthesized revisions to the Lost Cause narrative of Dunning school, scholars have expanded the scope of Reconstruction studies and debated its emancipatory potential. Among these new avenues of inquiry, Southern cities have undergone a quiet renaissance as settings for studying the period's larger themes, particularly the South's economic recovery and the Afric…
Cities as Settings
The Democratic Collapse
Reviewed by: The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser Frank Towers (bio) The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861. By Lauren N. Haumesser. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 230. Paper, $27.95.) Lauren Haumesser’s thought-provoking study of the late 1850s Democratic Party makes an important contribution to the study …
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