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Cavalier and Yankee : the Old South and American national character /

William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. Firstpu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, William R. (William Robert), 1922-2014
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; PROLOGUE
  • Two Aristocracies: A Dialogue; I: Crisis in the Old Order; II: From Natural Aristocrat to Country Squire; III: Point Counterpoint: The Growth of the Southern Legend in the North; IV: Holding the Wolf by the Ears: The Plantation Setting and the Social Order; V: A Squire of Change Alley: The Plantation Legend and the Aristocratic Impulse; VI: The Promised Land; VII: A Northern Man of Southern Principles; VIII: Revolution in South Carolina; IX: Whistling in the Dark; X: The Rage for Order; EPILOGUE
  • And the War Came; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J.