John M. McCardell
Autor von The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860
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- Geburtstag
- 1949-06-17
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Maryland, USA
- Ausbildung
- Harvard University (PhD)
Johns Hopkins University
Washington and Lee University - Organisationen
- University of the South (Vice-Chancellor, 2010- )
Middlebury College (President, 1992-2004)
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- 1
- Mitglieder
- 57
- Beliebtheit
- #287,973
- Bewertung
- 4.5
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- 2
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- 2
McCardell's subject is very broad and often treated in broad strokes. At the outset he raises anthropologist Clifford Geertz's concept of ideology as "a response to social, cultural, or ideological strain," a tool for imposing meaning on otherwise incomprehensible events. As such, ideology is "highly figurative" and, once accepted, is normally clung to with determination. The model is useful, but McCardell only applies it to the tariff crisis in South Carolina in the 1830s. For the most part the book is a series of well written portraits of prominent southerners that add richness and complexity to the reader's understanding of the period. If its concepts, including southern nationalism, are not always consistently defined, the book makes up for this by providing a broad perspective on many simultaneous tendencies in southern culture. This book is also exceptional for taking a serious approach to antebellum southern intellectual life.… (mehr)