Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (ESP - Publications of the Southern Texts Society) (Publications of the Southern Texts Society (Paperback))

by StephenBerry (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2013

  $43.31

  These diaries, along with Stephen Berry's introduction, address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and how the Civil War provoked a seismic shift in southern masculinity.