The Cosmopolitan South: Privileged Southerners, Philadelphia, and the Fashionable Tour in the Antebellum Era

In Antebellum America, Philadelphia was the center of cultural elites, the most conservative and cultured of all US cities with a national upper-class community that transcended regional boundaries. Kilbride seeks to understand the relationship between northern and southern culture by examining the experiences of privileged Southerners in antebellum Philadelphia and how the Civil War changed that relationship.