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...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Timothy J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] : Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:"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 underexamined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university"--Page 4 of cover
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
ISBN:9781469618418
1469618419
9781469618401
1469618400

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