Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the 19th-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, including Hampton Institute and Florida A&M, also adopted a military approach. Challenging assumptions about a ...
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Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the 19th-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, including Hampton Institute and Florida A&M, also adopted a military approach. Challenging assumptions about a distinctive "southern military tradition", Rob Andrew demonstrates that southern military schools were less concerned with preparing young men than with instilling broader values of honour, patriotism, civic duty, and virtue. Southerners had a remarkable desire to reconcile militarism with republicanism, Andrew says, and following the Civil War, the Lost Cause legend further strengthened the link in southerners' minds between military and civic virtue. Though traditionally black colleges faced struggles that white schools did not, notes Andrew, they were motivated by the same conviction that powered white military schools - the belief that a good soldier was by definition a good citizen.
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x9; The University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine, black binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, trace use/handling marks, small dent front board at fore-edge, mild scattered foxing top text block edge, in a Near Fine, trace handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, Dust Wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 169pp., indexed, bibliography, notes, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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