Respectable and Disreputable

Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations—military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities—religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows.Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans—at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas—shared very similar leisure time activities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt:218 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:142
Förlag:University of Georgia Press
ISBN:9781603062299

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JEFFREY C. BENTON, a retired Air Force colonel, has taught history and English at the University of Maryland Far East Division, The Citadel, the Air War College, Auburn University Montgomery, Troy University Montgomery, and The Montgomery Academy. His research interests are currently focused on local history. He has written extensively on Montgomery and its environs, including more than two hundred newspaper articles. His books on local history are A Sense of Place: Montgomery’s Architectural Heritage, 1821–1951; The Very Worst Road: Travellers’ Accounts of Crossing Alabama’s Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820–1847; and They Served Here: Thirty-three Maxwell Men. He received his BA from The Citadel, as well as master's degrees in English, political science, and history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Auburn University Montgomery, and Auburn University. He and his wife, Karen, have two daughters, Carolina and Catherine.

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Despite their serious expressions in surviving portraits and photos, antebellum Montgomerians liked to play. From lecture societies to circuses, Jeff Benton describes the wide range of recreational activities they enjoyed and how their interests changed as Montgomery evolved from a frontier town into the founding city of the Confederacy.