Princes of Cotton - Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860

Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN BERRY is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War ; All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South, and Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (Georgia). Klappentext These diaries, along with Stephen Berry's introduction, address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how males of different ages and regions resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and how the Civil War provoked a seismic shift in southern masculinity. Zusammenfassung These diaries! along with Stephen Berry's introduction! address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and how the Civil War provoked a seismic shift in southern masculinity.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen (EDT) Berry
• Mitarbeit: Stephen Berry (Herausgeber), Michael O'Brien (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: The University of Georgia Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780820344263
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4426-3
• Seiten: 576
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Serien: Publications of the Southern T; Publications of the Southern T
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Biographien, Autobiographien