Cavalier and Yankee The Old South and American National Character

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ISBN: 9780195082845 | 0195082842
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Copyright: 6/17/1993

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William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.

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Introduction	p. 15
Prologue - Two Aristocracies: A Dialogue	p. 23
Crisis in the Old Order	p. 37
Innocence Abroad
The New Provincialism
The Southern Planter as Doomed Aristocrat
Southern Mugwumps
From Natural Aristocrat to Country Squire	p. 67
Thomas Jefferson Confronts the Legend
A New Man
The Legend Grows
The Natural Aristocrat Takes to the Woods
The Legendary Planter Gains Civilized Restraints
Point Counterpoint: The Growth of the Southern Legend in the North	p. 95
The Age of Anxiety
The Yankee Takes Cover
The Transcendent Yankee and Society
Daniel Webster and the Transcendence of Sectionalism
The Yankee at Home and Abroad
The Yankee Ethos in Limbo
From Yankee to Southern Cavalier
The Problem of American Gentility
A Division of Labor
Holding the Wolf by the Ears: The Plantation Setting and the Social Order	p. 145
The Plantation Legend and Southern Introspection
From Hotspur to Hamlet
The Plantation Becomes a Matriarchy
The Origins of Southern Chivalry
Women and Negroes: One and Inseparable
A Squire of Change Alley: The Plantation Legend and the Aristocratic Impulse	p. 177
The Literary Origin of the Plantation Legend
From Jest to Sentiment
The Mythmaking Ethos
The Cult of Chivalry and the New Imagination
Literature and Aspiration
The Promised Land	p. 203
A Scotch-Irishman Takes Stock
Whigs and Harmony
Yankee and Cavalier
From Whig Harmony to Cavalier Insurgency
A Northern Man of Southern Principles	p. 225
From Provincial to Citizen of the World
A Southern Exposure
Westward Ho!
From Jackson to Randolph
The Route to Insurgency
Revolution in South Carolina	p. 261
The Spirit of '76
Toward Insurgency
Thermidor
The Vanishing Patriot
From Falstaff to Hamlet
Whistling in the Dark	p. 299
Slavery and the Sentimental Revolution
The Rage for Order	p. 315
The Virginia Frontiersman
Epilogue - And the War Came	p. 325
The Southern Cavalier Redivivus
Coda
References	p. 343
Index	p. 375
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