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Northern character : college-educated New Englanders, honor, nationalism, and leadership in the Civil War era / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.
LIBRA F9 .W88 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wongsrichanalai, Kanisorn, author.
- Series:
- North's Civil War
- The North's Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Civilization.
- College students.
- Social aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects--New England.
- United States.
- College students--New England--History--19th century.
- New England--Intellectual life--19th century.
- New England.
- Intellectual life.
- New England--Civilization--19th century.
- New England--History--19th century.
- Character.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The Elite Young Men who inhabited northern antebellum states-the New Brahmins-developed their leadership class identity based on the term character: an idealized internal standard of behavior consisting most importantly of educated, independent thought and selfless action. With its unique focus on Union honor, nationalism, and masculinity, Northern Character addresses the motivating factors of these young college-educated Yankees who rushed into the armed forces to take their place at the forefront of the Union's war. This social and intellectual history tells the New Brahmins' story from the campus to the battlefield and, for the fortunate ones, home again. Northern Character examines how these good and moral men of character interacted with common soldiers and faced battle, reacted to seeing the South and real southerners, and approached race, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- "A stage with curtains drawn": New England college students and their world
- "The great people of the future": American civilization and national character
- To act like men: building character in the new Brahmins
- "To put those theories into practice": secession and the crisis of character
- Marching into "rebeldom": the failure of southern character
- The character to command
- Character triumphant: reconstruction, reform, and reconciliation
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wongsrichanalai, Kanisorn, author. Northern character.
- ISBN:
- 9780823271818
- 0823271811
- 9780823271825
- 082327182X
- OCLC:
- 925500050
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