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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455345503321

Autore

Andrew Rod

Titolo

Long gray lines [[electronic resource] ] : the Southern military school tradition, 1839-1915 / / Rod Andrew, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8078-7534-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Disciplina

355/.0071/173

Soggetti

Military education - Southern States - History - 19th century

Military education - Southern States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Educating the Citizen-Soldier; 2. Death and Rebirth; 3. Soldiers, Christians, and Patriots; 4. Discipline and Defiance; 5. Military Law and Individual Rights; 6. Military Education for Black Youth; 7. Our Duty Is Plain; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<![CDATA[Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms, join a corps of cadets, and subject themselves to constant military discipline. Several southern black colleges also adopted a military approach.   <BR><BR>Challenging assumptions about a distinctive ""southern military tradition,"" Rod Andrew demonstrates that southern military schools