Engineering manhood : race and the antebellum Virginia Military Institute /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, Jonson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Amherst, Massachusetts] : Lever Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Virginia Military Institute > History > 19th century.
Virginia Military Institute > Students > History > 19th century.
Virginia Military Institute.
1800-1899
Racism in higher education > Virginia > Lexington > History > 19th century.
Sexism in higher education > Virginia > Lexington > History > 19th century.
Engineering > Study and teaching (Higher) > Virginia > Lexington.
Men, White > Education (Higher) > Social aspects > Virginia > Lexington.
Racisme dans l'enseignement supérieur > Virginie > Lexington > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sexisme dans l'enseignement supérieur > Virginie > Lexington > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > General.
Engineering > Study and teaching (Higher)
Racism in higher education.
Sexism in higher education.
Students.
Virginia > Lexington.
engineering education
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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