Intellectual manhood : university, self, and society in the antebellum south.

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Timothy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2014.
Subjects:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > History.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Masculinity > Social aspects > Southern States.
Male college students > Southern States > Conduct of life.
Men > Education (Higher) > Southern States > History.
Universities and colleges > Southern States > Sociological aspects > History.
Masculinité > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud)
Étudiants masculins > États-Unis (Sud) > Morale pratique.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
EDUCATION > Higher.
Masculinity > Social aspects
Universities and colleges > Sociological aspects
Southern States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Going to college
  • You come here to know how to learn : pedagogy and curriculum
  • Not merely thinking, but speaking beings : speech education
  • Reading makes the man : books and literary socialization
  • Encouragement to excel : portraiture, biography, and self culture
  • What is man without woman? : courtship, intimacy, and sex
  • The outward thrust of male higher education : debating every great public question.

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