Northern Character

College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2016
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7182-5 (ISBN)

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This book examines the social and gendered world of college-educated New Englanders who fought in the Civil War by exploring how they tried to develop good character traits and a sense of nationalism. The book also explores how these men interacted with soldiers and southerners, faced battle, and approached Reconstruction.

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 unique focus on Union honor, nationalism, and masculinity, Northern Character addresses the motivating factors of these young college-educated Yankees who rushed into the armed forces to take their place at the forefront of the Union’s war.

This social and intellectual history tells the New Brahmins’ story from the campus to the battlefield and, for the fortunate ones, home again. Northern Character examines how these good and moral “men of character” interacted with common soldiers and faced battle, reacted to seeing the South and real southerners, and approached race, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation.

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of history at Angelo State University. He is co-editor (with Lorien Foote) of So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North, also from Fordham University Press.

Introduction 1. "A Stage with Curtains Drawn": New England College Students and Their World 2. "The Great People of the Future": American Civilization and National Character 3. To Act Like Men: Building Character in the New Brahmins 4. "To Put Those Theories into Practice": Secession and The Crisis of Character 5. Marching into "Rebeldom": The Failure of Southern Character 6. The Character to Command 7. Character Triumphant: Reconstruction, Reform, and Reconciliation Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	The North's Civil War
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-8232-7182-X / 082327182X
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-7182-5 / 9780823271825
Zustand	Neuware