Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South - Couverture souple

Frost, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1572337311 ISBN 13 : 9781572337312

Editeur : University of Tennessee Press, 2010

Synopsis

In the wake of their defeat in the Civil War, many southern intellectuals recognized that their institutions had failed to supply antebellum graduates with the skills needed to compete with the North. Thus, educators who had previously served as Confederate officers led an effort to promote academic reform throughout the region.

In Thinking Confederates, Dan R. Frost details how these men set about transforming southern higher education, shifting their schools from a classical orientation to a new emphasis on science and engineering. Although they espoused a reverence for the past, they recognized that the eradication of slavery had been necessary for southern progress, and they upheld an idea of a New South that embraced beliefs both in the "Lost Cause" and in national reconciliation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dan R. Frost is an assistant professor of history at Dillard University in New Orleans. He has previously written on the history of higher education in the South in a two-volume work on the LSU College of Engineering.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Tennessee Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1572337311
• ISBN 13: 9781572337312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 207
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