Halls of Honor
College Men in the Old South
A powerful confluence of youthful energies and entrenched codes of honor enlivens Robert F. Pace's look at the world of male student college life in the antebellum South. Through extensive research into records, letters, and diaries of students and faculty from more than twenty institutions, Pace creates a vivid portrait of adolescent rebelliousness struggling with the ethic to cultivate a public face of industry, respect, and honesty. These future leaders confronted authority figures, made friends, studied, courted, frolicked, drank, gambled, cheated, and dueled -- all within the established traditions of their southern culture.For the sons…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-3873-1
- EAN: 9780807138731
- Produktnummer: 27860802
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'356 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 Map, 1 photo
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Robert F. Pace
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