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All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South

Door Stephen W. Berry

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#327761-XE2
Titel	All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South
Auteur	Berry, Stephen W.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Oxford/New York : Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0195145674
ISBN13	9780195145670
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, a few illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. AsAll That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South makes clear, most southern men saw the war more simply as a test of their manhood, a chance to defend the honor of their sweethearts, fiancés, and wives back home. Drawing upon diaries and personal letters, Stephen Berry seamlessly weaves together the stories of six very different men, detailing the tangled roles that love and ambition played in each man's life. Their writings reveal a male-dominated Southern culture that exalted women as "repositories of divine grac... (Lees verder)e" and treasured romantic love as the platform from which men launched their bids for greatness. The exhilarating onset of war seemed to these, and most southern men, a grand opportunity to fulfill their ambition for glory and to prove their love for women--on the same field of battle. As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home. Elegant and poetic, All That Makes a Man recovers the emotional lives of unsung Southern men and women and reveals that the fiction ofCold Mountain mirrors a poignant reality. In their search for a cause worthy of their lives, many Southern soldiers were disappointed in their hopes for a Southern nation. But they still had their women's love, and there they would rebuild.
Pagina's	286
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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