Northern Character : : College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era / / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.
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 uniqu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The North's Civil War
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. "A Stage with Curtains Drawn"
- 2. "The Great People of the Future"
- 3. To Act Like Men
- 4. "To Put Those Theories into Practice
- 5. Marching into "Rebeldom"
- 6. The Character to Command
- 7. Character Triumphant
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index