Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South

AvJennifer R. Green

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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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; finally, it explicitly linked middle-class stability or mobility to the ongoing national professionalization of teachers. Ultimately, these schools demonstrate that educational opportunity and reform took place in the antebellum South and that schooling aided southerners in social mobility.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-15
Mått:162 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521894937

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Jennifer R. Green is associate professor of history at Central Michigan University. Her dissertation, completed at Boston University, won the Claude A. Eggertsen Best Dissertation Prize from the History of Education Society. She has published articles in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Historical Society, and the collection Southern Manhood, and presented at major conferences. She was the recipient of a Teaching American History grant for 2004-2007.

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Review of the hardback: 'Jennifer Green's smart new book, Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South, puts social class front and center on the southern history table. Her deeply researched examination of the complex ways white southern men used military schooling to advance their social and economic status presses us to fundamentally re-think our understanding of southern class formation and the role of national networks of professionalization in that process. This well-written volume strikes a fine balance between establishing the importance of military education in the Old South and highlighting its critical role in the development of a southern middle class, and is a welcome and important contribution to all studies on social mobility.' Michele Gillespie, Wake Forrest University

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1. Introducing the emerging southern middle class; 2. 'The advantage of a collegiate education': military education funding; 3. 'Your duty as citizens and soldiers': military education discipline and duty; 4. 'Honor as a man': manhood and the cultural values of the emerging southern middle class; 5. 'Practical progress is the watchword': military education curriculum; 6. Professions and status: middle-class alumni stability and mobility; 7. Networks of miltary educators; 8. Classifying the middle class.