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Author: Lorri Glover (Professor of History, Saint Louis University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780801898211
ISBN 10: 0801898218
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 26 November 2010
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A compelling examination. -- Giselle Roberts Civil War Book Review 2007 Makes important contributions to historians' understandings of gender, family, and sectionalism. -- Anya Jabour Journal of American History 2007 Insightful study... Recommended. Choice 2008 We read about young men who exhibited a lifelong negotiation with authority, with society's expectations, with one another, and eventually with the North... Well-written, meticulously researched. -- Evan A. Kontarinis Journal of the Early Republic 2007 Glover convincingly revises the long-held thesis that honor is the best paradigm for investigating young Southern men's identities in the early national period. -- Jennifer L. Gross H-NC, H-Net Reviews 2007 Glover successfully demonstrates that becoming a man in the early national South was a complicated process that demanded much of the boys who sought to be considered men. -- Charlene Boyer Lewis Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Glover carefully charts the empowerment which elite southern boys received over a lifetime of successfully navigating these social waters. -- R. Matthew Poteat Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 2008 Glover's new study of southern elite manhood in the new nation is an important contribution to southern history as well as to gender history. -- Thomas A. Foster William and Mary Quarterly 2009 Southern Sons is an impressive work, certain to influence-and perhaps even reshape-Southern social and cultural history for years to come, as well as the history of American masculinities. -- Steve Tripp Historian 2009 Glover's analysis is insightful and rests on exhaustive research in reliable sources. -- Matthew Mason Southern Quarterly 2009 An important book for anyone interested in gender, family history, or education in antebellum America. It is also a refreshing way to frame the origins of the American Civil War. -- Michael DeGruccio H-CivWar 2008 Southern Sons provides insight into the day-to-day lives of young southern elites and offers a detailed examination of the process by which southern boys became southern men in the Early Republic. -- Ehren K. Foley Journal of Social History 2009
Glover's new study of southern elite manhood in the new nation is an important contribution to southern history as well as to gender history. - William and Mary Quarterly Southern Sons is an impressive work, certain to influence - and perhaps even reshape - Southern social and cultural history for years to come, as well as the history of American masculinities. - The Historian We read about young men who exhibited a lifelong negotiation with authority, with society's expectations, with one another, and eventually with the North... Well written, meticulously researched. - Journal of the Early Republic
Author Information
Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. She is the author of All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry, also published by Johns Hopkins, and coauthor with Daniel Blake Smith of The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America.
