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Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Rural Manhood
Author: Rural Manhood
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Rural Manhood
Author: Henry IsraelPublisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Subduing Satan
Author: Ted OwnbyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469615878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes. "Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vices, enjoyed lustily by men seeking to escape the sweet virtue of the Southern Christian home.--Nation "A bold new thesis. . . . [Ownby] gives us guideposts in the ongoing search for the meaning of southern history.--Journal of Southern History "I suspect that for many years ahead Ted Ownby's Subduing Satan will serve as the standard guide on how to write religious social history.--Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida "This is one of the freshest and most interesting books written about the American South in years. By focusing on the cultural conflicts of everyday life, Ownby gets us right to the heart of white culture in the South between Reconstruction and the 1920s.--Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia
Rural Manhood
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
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Rural Manhood
Author: Henry IsraelPublisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Agricultural Index
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Biological & Agricultural Index
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Benjamin René JordanPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship. By examining the BSA's national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials' preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and "modernizable" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too "backward" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization's past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation.
