Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860

Author/Contributor(s):	Berry, Stephen
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	01/01/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.