{"product_id":"southern-sons-becoming-men-in-the-new-nation-9780801898211","title":"Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween the generations of Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, the culture of white Southerners experienced significant changes, including the establishment of a normative male identity that exuded confidence, independence, and power. \u003ci\u003eSouthern Sons\u003c\/i\u003e, the first work in masculinity studies to concentrate on the early South, explores how young men of the southern gentry came of age between the 1790s and the 1820s. Lorri Glover examines how standards for manhood came about, how young men experienced them in the early South, and how those values transformed many American sons into southern nationalists who ultimately would conspire to tear apart the republic they had been raised to lead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was the first generation of boys raised to conceive of themselves as Americans, as well as the first cohort of self-defined southern men. They grew up believing that the fate of the American experiment in self-government depended on their ability to put away personal predispositions and perform prescribed roles. Because men faced demanding gender norms, boys had to pass exacting tests of manhood--in education, refinement, courting, careers, and slave mastery. Only then could they join the ranks of the elite and claim power in society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing the complex interplay of nationalism and regionalism in the lives of southern men, Glover brings new insight to the question of what led the South toward sectionalism and civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorri Glover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801898211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorri Glover\u003c\/b\u003e is the John Francis Bannon Professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAll Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry, \u003c\/i\u003ealso published by Johns Hopkins, and coauthor with Daniel Blake Smith of\u003ci\u003e The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The \u003c\/i\u003eSea Venture\u003ci\u003e Castaways and the Fate of America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40136300396659,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2da57545-0f50-4e8b-84fa-dcd62caa6817.jpg?v=1654263121","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/southern-sons-becoming-men-in-the-new-nation-9780801898211","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}