In this important and original work, Kristen Brill weaves together individual women's voices in the private sphere, collective organisations in civic society, and political ideology and policy in the political arena, to provide a definitive take on white women and political culture in the Confederacy.
In this important and original work, Kristen Brill weaves together individual women's voices in the private sphere, collective organisations in civic ...
In this important and original work, Kristen Brill weaves together individual women's voices in the private sphere, collective organisations in civic society, and political ideology and policy in the political arena, to provide a definitive take on white women and political culture in the Confederacy.
In this important and original work, Kristen Brill weaves together individual women's voices in the private sphere, collective organisations in civic ...
How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honour that instructed them to do just the opposite--to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ideals to forge a new compound: a wrathful moral ethic of righteous honour. Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies investigates the formation and proliferation of this white supremacist ideology that merged masculine bellicosity with religious...
How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of ...
In 1856, when Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honour reached its apogee and took national centre stage. Welborn analyses the birth of this peculiar moral ethic and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the build-up to the Civil War.
In 1856, when Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honour reached its ap...
Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Es...
Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Es...
Explores the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers and its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how essential the defense of slavery was in motivating Confederate troops to fight, Woodward examines the Rebels' persistent belief in the need to defend slavery and deploy it militarily as the war raged on.
Explores the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers and its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how ess...
