Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South

Klappentext This book explores the importance of military education for the development of the antebellum southern middle class. Zusammenfassung This book argues that military education was an important institution in the development of the southern middle class in the late antebellum years. She explores class formation! professionalization! and social mobility in the 1840s and 1850s to define the middle class on a national level! while identifying regionally specific characteristics of the emerging southern middle class. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introducing the emerging southern middle class; 2. 'The advantage of a collegiate education': military education funding; 3. 'Your duty as citizens and soldiers': military education discipline and duty; 4. 'Honor as a man': manhood and the cultural values of the emerging southern middle class; 5. 'Practical progress is the watchword': military education curriculum; 6. Professions and status: middle-class alumni stability and mobility; 7. Networks of miltary educators; 8. Classifying the middle class.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer R. Green, Jennifer R. (Central Michigan University) Green, Green Jennifer R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521201285
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20128-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Warfare & defence, Social and cultural history, Warfare and defence, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, US South