Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South

Name: Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South
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ISBN: 9780521894937

ISBN-10: 052189493X

ISBN-13: 9780521894937

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jennifer R. Green

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This book argues that military education was an important institution in the development of the southern middle class as a regional group and as part of the national middle class in the late antebellum years. It explores class formation, professionalization, and social mobility in the 1840s and 1850s, using this data to define the middle class on a national level, while also identifying regionally specific characteristics of the emerging southern middle class. Green argues that the significance of antebellum military education is, first, that it illuminates the emerging southern middle class, a group difficult to locate and differentiate; second, it offered social stability or mobility;…

Book details

List price: $113.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Tables


List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Introducing the Emerging Southern Middle Class



"The advantage of a collegiate education": Military Education Funding



"Your duty as citizens and soldiers": Military Education Discipline and Duty



"Honor as a man": Manhood and the Cultural Values of the Emerging Southern Middle Class



"Practical progress is the watchword": Military Education Curriculum



Professions and Status: Middle-class Alumni Stability and Mobility



Networks of Military Educators



Classifying the Middle Class


Conclusion



Military Schools and Schools with Cadet Corps Founded Before 1861



Tables


Bibliography


Index