1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467166703321

Autore

Birken Lawrence <1951-2003, >

Titolo

Consuming desire : sexual science and the emergence of a culture of abundance, 1871-1914 / / Lawrence Birken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , [1988]

©1988

ISBN

1-5017-4547-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 167 pages)

Disciplina

306.70973

Soggetti

Sex customs - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Dissolution of Political Economy -- 2. The Emergence of Sexology -- 3. Evolution and Devolution -- 4. Democratization and Degeneration -- 5. Sexuality and History -- 6. Society and Sexology -- 7. The Disintegration of Holism -- Epilogue: "The Sexual Counterrevolution" in Historical Perspective -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Consuming Desire investigates why a science of sex emerged when it did at the turn of the twentieth century and delivers a provocative account of the role of sexology in our contemporary culture. Examining key texts in the theories of sexuality, psychoanalysis, evolution, and economics, Lawrence Birken illuminates the intellectual heritage of sexology and the ways in which it is now being pressed into the service of sexual counterrevolutionaries from both the right and the left.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780979403321

Autore

Andrew Rod

Titolo

Wade Hampton [[electronic resource] ] : Confederate warrior to southern redeemer / / Rod Andrew, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008

ISBN

1-4696-0474-4

0-8078-8900-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (635 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

973.7/42

Soggetti

Generals - Confederate States of America

Governors - South Carolina

Legislators - United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Cavalry operations

South Carolina Politics and government 1865-1950

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. 577-599) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I. PATERNALISM; PART II. CHIVALRY; PART III. VINDICATION; Epilogue; Appendix: The Fable of Hampton, ''Major S,'' and a Union Private; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Few Southern elites gave more to the Confederate cause or suffered more in its defeat than General Wade Hampton III of South Carolina. One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Hampton was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses. He lost a beloved son and a brother, his own home as well as his grandfather's ancestral mansion, and his vast personal fortune. He failed to deter Sherman's legions from capturing his hometown o