Abstract
Gary Lawson Browne. Baltimore in the Nation, 1789-1861. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.349 + xiii pp. Blaine A. Brownell and David R, Goldfield, eds. The City in Southern History. Port Washington, N.Y./London: Kennikat Press, 1977. 228 pp. Whitman H. Ridgeway. Community Leadership in Maryland. 1790-1840. Chapel Hilh The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. 414 4- xxi pp. The South has often served as a foil to set off the progress of other regions of the United States. Urbanization is a case in point. Sociologists and historians conventionally remark a fifty- or sixty-year lag in the pace of southern urban growth relative to the nation as a whole.1 According to the editors of The City in Southern History; this perceived lag has been responsible for preoccupa- tion with the traditional, rural South to the neglect of cities like Baltimore, Charleston, Richmond, Memphis, New Orleans and Atlanta. The five chron- ologically-ordered essays in their collection offer the best overview to date of southern urban history.
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