Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Northern Character (eBook, PDF)

College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The elite young men who inhabited northern antebellum statesGCothe New BrahminsGCodeveloped their leadership class identity based on the term GCGBPcharacterGC 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 UnionGCOs war. This social and intellectual history tells the New BrahminsG story from the campus to the battlefield and, for the fortunate ones, home again. Northern Character examines how these good and moral Gmen of characterG interacted with common soldiers and faced battle, reacted to seeing the South and real southerners, and approached race, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823271849
• Artikelnr.: 45682866

Autorenporträt

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai