| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Going to college -- You come here to know how to learn : pedagogy and curriculum -- Not merely thinking, but speaking beings : speech education -- Reading makes the man : books and literary socialization -- Encouragement to excel : portraiture, biography, and self culture -- What is man without woman? : courtship, intimacy, and sex -- The outward thrust of male higher education : debating every great public question |
| Summary |
"In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students' perspective and drawing from a rich trove of their letters, diaries, essays, speeches, and memoirs, Williams narrates the underexamined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university"--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index |
| Subject |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- History
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| SUBJECT |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fast |
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Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Southern States
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Male college students -- Southern States -- Conduct of life
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Men -- Education (Higher) -- Southern States -- History
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Universities and colleges -- Southern States -- Sociological aspects -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Masculinity -- Social aspects
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Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469618418 |
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1469618419 |
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9781469618401 |
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1469618400 |
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