Intellectual Manhood
University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students' perspective and drawing from a rich trove of their letters, diaries, essays, speeches, and memoirs, Williams narrates the under examined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university.Every aspect of student life is cons…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4696-1839-5
- EAN: 9781469618395
- Produktnummer: 16268682
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.7 cm 493 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 493
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