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Engineering manhood : race and the antebellum Virginia Military Institute /

It is not an accident that American engineering is so disproportionately male and white; it took and takes work to create and sustain this situation. Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute examines the process by which engineers of the antebellum Virginia Military I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Jonson (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amherst, Massachusetts] : Lever Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • VMI : challenging the Northern story of antebellum engineering
  • Education and white manhood in the struggle for political power
  • Creating the "West Point of the South"
  • Engineering knowledge and the struggle for authority in higher education
  • Engineering as a profession of service to the progress of Virginia
  • The necessary white manhood of engineering
  • Secession : realigning identity and power.