Charleston: a city in rebellion, 1861-1865
| dc.contributor.advisor | Vandiver, Frank E. | |
| dc.creator | Wakelyn, Catherine Carl | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-18T21:29:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-12-18T21:29:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1966 | |
| dc.description | abstract text is incomplete. | |
| dc.description.abstract | How does a wartime city react under stress? This thesis seeks to answer this question» using the city of Charleston» South Carolina, during the years of the Civil War, as a test case. Although Charleston was in no sense a "typical" Southern city, the ability of its citizens to progress from a naive to a sophisticated concept of resistance, as well as to relax antebellum class distinctions, exemplifies the changes wrought by the Civil War on a relatively static society. This history of Charleston is primarily a descriptive narrative, employing a topical method of discussion within a chronological frame¬ work. Its dual themes are those of action and reaction (with respect to both civil and military events), and of continuity and change within the social and institutional structure. The first chapter demonstrates the continuity of local sentiment from secession to civil war, while the remaining chapters illustrate the reinforcement of this original sentiment in both the resistance and the rhetoric of the war years. At the same time, they show how local military incidents compelled the citizens to understand and accept more mature ideas of warfare and, in some cases, to moderate and modify their original war aims. Above all, the thesis as a whole details the commonality of suffering in a war-torn city. | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | |
| dc.format.extent | 191 pp | |
| dc.identifier.callno | Thesis Hist. 1966 Wakelyn | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wakelyn, Catherine Carl. "Charleston: a city in rebellion, 1861-1865." (1966) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/104743">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/104743</a>. | |
| dc.identifier.digital | RICE2379 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/104743 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | |
| dc.title | Charleston: a city in rebellion, 1861-1865 | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | Text | |
| thesis.degree.department | History | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Humanities | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |
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