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All that makes a man :

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0195145674

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0195183991

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0198033303

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1280531908

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6610531900

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9780195145670

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9780195183993

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9780198033301

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9781280531903

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Title Proper

All that makes a man :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

love and ambition in the Civil War South /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen W. Berry II.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2003.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.

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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Men and Ambition; 1 All That Makes a Man; 2 Two Separate Yet Most Intimate Things; II: Men and Women; 3 Across a Great Divide; 4 Purity and Desire; III: Men and War; 5 A Fountain of Waters; 6 Looking Homeward; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

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In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South makes clear, most southern men saw the war more simply as a test of their manhood, a chance to defend the honor of their sweethearts, fiances, and wives back home. Drawing upon diaries and personal letters, Stephen Berry seamlessly weaves together the stories of six very different men, detailing the tangled roles that love and ambition played in each man's life. Their writings reveal a male-dominated Southern culture that exalted women as "repositories of divine grace" and treasured romantic love as the platform from which men launched their bids for greatness. The exhilarating onset of war seemed to these, and most southern men, a grand opportunity to fulfill their ambition for glory and to prove their love for women-on the same field of battle.; As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home. Elegant and poetic, All That Makes a Man recovers the emotional lives of unsung Southern men and women and reveals that the fiction of Cold Mountain mirrors a poignant reality. In their search for a cause worthy of their lives, many Southern soldiers were disappointed in their hopes for a Southern nation. But they still had their women's love, and there they would rebuild.

Title

All that makes a man.

International Standard Book Number

0195145674

Ambition-- History-- 19th century.

Man-woman relationships-- Confederate States of America.

Men-- Confederate States of America-- Psychology.

Men-- Confederate States of America-- Social conditions.

Sex role-- Confederate States of America.

Soldiers-- Confederate States of America-- Psychology.

Soldiers-- Confederate States of America-- Social conditions.

Ambition.

HISTORY.

Man-woman relationships.

Men-- Psychology.

Men-- Social conditions.

Psychological aspects.

Sex role.

Social aspects.

Social conditions

Soldiers-- Psychology.

Soldiers-- Social conditions.

Confederate States of America, Social conditions.

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Psychological aspects.

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Social aspects.

United States, Confederate States of America.

United States.

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HIS-- 036050

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Berry, Stephen William.

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20201206224013.0

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