Jennifer R. Green

Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the importance of military education for the development of the antebellum southern middle class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521201285
• ISBN-10: 0521201284
• Artikelnr.: 32468551

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing the emerging southern middle class
2. 'The advantage of a collegiate education': military education funding
3. 'Your duty as citizens and soldiers': military education discipline and duty
4. 'Honor as a man': manhood and the cultural values of the emerging southern middle class
5. 'Practical progress is the watchword': military education curriculum
6. Professions and status: middle-class alumni stability and mobility
7. Networks of miltary educators
8. Classifying the middle class.