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

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Berry is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina! Pembroke. He is the author of All That Makes a Man and the forthcoming The Todds: First Family of the Civil War. Klappentext Includes diaries that 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 more. Zusammenfassung Includes diaries that 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 more.

Summary

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: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2007
• EAN: 9780820328843
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2884-3
• No. of pages: 554
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Publications of the Southern T; Publications of the Southern T; The Publications of the Southern Texts Society
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies