The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
(Part of the Civil War America Series and Civil War America Series)
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Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080782948X
ISBN13:9780807829486
Release Date:January 2005
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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