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The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion(Civil War America)

The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion(Civil War America)


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This book deals with coming of age in the 1850s and '60s. Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Carmichael argues that their experiences force us to reexamine the nature of Southern manhood and shed new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century.

About the Author :
PETER S. CARMICHAEL is Eberly Professor of Civil War History at West Virginia University. His books include Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Pegram and Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee.

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"A significant book, a work of intellectual history that explores the beliefs of an important group of Confederates. The narrative moves well and is thought-provoking. Highly recommended."--The Virginian "A well-researched and intriguing study. . . . An ambitious project."--Georgia Historical Quarterly "All readers will appreciate [Carmichael's] creative and often compelling re-reading of letters and diaries to find a common worldview within a generation."--Journal of Southern History "Carmichael contributes significantly to ongoing debates about southern identity, secession, and social, cultural, and ideological continuity across the tumultuous years of Civil War and Reconstruction. . . . [This] engaging study reminds us that there were many versions of southern manliness and honor and many roads to secession."--Journal of American History "Carmichael provides an important contribution to both subfields [social and military history] and in doing so enhances the reader's appreciation of the Civil War as the nation's seminal event."--American Historical Review "Carmichael's book is an important vehicle for understanding the relationship between proslavery thought in higher education and the Civil War."--Reviews in American History "Carmichael's look at Virginia's 'last generation' . . . offers a . . . complex and multifaceted understanding. . . . His work will stand as a compelling description of the motivations and mentalities of the men who clamored loudest for Virginia's entry into the war, and then labored hardest to pull it out of the wreckage."Civil War Times "Deeply researched and well-argued. . . . This well-written and sensitively argued study should be required reading for all scholars of Southern history and the Civil War."--Journal of Military History "This fascinating book creatively tackles a number of old chestnuts in the historiography of the Civil War era: the late-blooming Southern nationalism in the Upper South, the role of slavery in Southern ideology, and the postwar reunion between the North and the South. Carmichael provides valuable reinterpretations of Southern religion and honor."--Civil War History "Using a generational approach to study the motivations and actions of the South's most diehard defenders, Carmichael both enlightens and entertains."--North and South


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807861851
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 487 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0807861855
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Series Title: Civil War America
  • Sub Title: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
  • Width: 146 mm


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