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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785094303321

Autore

Taylor William Robert <1922->

Titolo

Cavalier and Yankee [[electronic resource] ] : the Old South and American national character / / William R. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-771200-2

1-280-52683-1

0-19-535951-8

1-4294-0013-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Disciplina

975.03

Soggetti

National characteristics, American

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

Southern States Civilization 1775-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Braziller, 1961.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; PROLOGUE-Two Aristocracies: A Dialogue; I: Crisis in the Old Order; II: From Natural Aristocrat to Country Squire; III: Point Counterpoint: The Growth of the Southern Legend in the North; IV: Holding the Wolf by the Ears: The Plantation Setting and the Social Order; V: A Squire of Change Alley: The Plantation Legend and the Aristocratic Impulse; VI: The Promised Land; VII: A Northern Man of Southern Principles; VIII: Revolution in South Carolina; IX: Whistling in the Dark; X: The Rage for Order; EPILOGUE-And the War Came; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960's. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.