Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners: Cultural Conflict and Commitment in the Old Republic
FAIN: FT-11970-74
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
University of Florida (Gainesville, FL 32611-0001)
To develop a new interpretation of the North-South conflict before the Civil War. The study will describe the conflict in cultural terms of the South's "traditional" society versus the North's "modernizing" or "universal-achievement" society.