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

Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN BERRY is professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges , 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 . 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen (EDT) Berry
• Assisted by: Stephen Berry (Editor), Michael O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780820344263
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4426-3
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Publications of the Southern T; Publications of the Southern T
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies