| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Gentlemen and soldiers: competing visions of manhood in early Jamestown / John Gilbert McCurdy -- Indian and English dreams: colonial hierarchy and manly restraint in seventeenth-century New England / Ann Marie Plane -- "We are men": Native American and Euroamerican projections of masculinity during the Seven Years' War / Tyler Boulware -- Real men: masculinity, spirituality, and community in late eighteenth-century Cherokee warfare / Susan Abram -- "Blood and lust": masculinity and sexuality in illustrated print portrayals of early pirates of the Caribbean / Carolyn Eastman -- "Banes of society" and "gentlemen of strong natural parts": attacking and defending West Indian Creole masculinity / Natalie A. Zacek -- "Impatient of subordination" and "liable to sudden transports of anger": white masculinity and homosocial relations with black men in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Trevor Burnard -- "Effective men" and early voluntary associations in Philadelphia, 1725-1775 / Jessica Choppin Roney -- "Strength of the lion ... arms like polished iron": embodying black masculinity in an age of slavery and propertied manhood / Kathleen M. Brown -- Of eloquence "manly" and "monstrous": the henpecked husband in revolutionary political debate, 1774-1775 / Benjamin H. Irvin -- John Adams and the choice of Hercules: manliness and sexual virtue in eighteenth-century British America / Thomas A. Foster -- "Play the man ... for your bleeding country": military chaplains as gender brokers during the American Revolutionary War / Janet Moore Lindmanar |
| Summary |
"In lucid prose, the authors map the contours of early American manhood from first encounters through the Revolution, and from the marriage bed to the battlefield. The results demonstrate the continuing vitality of gender as a category of analysis as well as the fascinating, sometimes terrifying dynamism of the colonial Atlantic world."--Jane Kamensky, Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization, Brandeis University |
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"With New Men, Foster ushers in a new era in masculinity studies. Both historically precise and analytically astute, these essays provide multiple meditations on masculinity before the birth of the nation."--Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America |
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"The essays published here provide fresh perspectives on time-honored topics from the settlement of Jamestown to revolutionary political rhetoric along with provocative insights from new topics such as dreams, desire, and dangerous men in the early modern world. Some essays will provoke wonderful classroom discussions, while others offer important points of departure for future scholarship. All of them are worth reading."--Anne Lombard, author of Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Early New England |
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"This impressive collection of essays is one of the best books in print on the history of manliness. It covers a broad range of times, places, and topics, and it does so at a consistently high level of interest and insight. As a result, New Men will make a great choice for courses on masculinity or early America."--E. Anthony Rotundo, author of American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era |
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New Men showcases how colonial and Revolutionary conditions gave rise to new standards of British American manliness. Focusing on Indian, African, and European masculinities in British America from earliest Jamestown through the Revolutionary era, and addressing topics that range from slavery to philanthropy, and from satire to warfare, the essays in this anthology collectively demonstrate how the economic, political, social, cultural, and religious conditions of early America shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Masculinity -- United States -- History
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Men -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Masculinity
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Men
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Foster, Thomas A., editor.
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Norton, Mary Beth, writer of foreword.
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Ditz, Toby L., 1951- writer of afterword.
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| LC no. |
2010033743 |
| ISBN |
9780814728222 |
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0814728227 |
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9780814728475 |
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0814728472 |
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