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- catalog abstract "In the early 1850s, northerners and southerners alike used the term fire-eater to describe anyone whose views were clearly outside the political mainstream. Eventually, though, the word came to be most closely identified with those southerners who were staunch and unyielding advocates of secession. In this broadly researched and illuminating study, Eric H. Walther examines the lives of nine of the most prominent fire-eaters: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, William Lowndes Yancey, John Anthony Quitman, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Laurence M. Keitt, Louis T. Wigfall, James D.B. De Bow, Edmund Ruffin, and William Porcher Miles. Walther paints skillful portraits of his subjects, analyzing their backgrounds, personalities, and contributions to the movement for disunion. Although they shared the common goal of southern independence, Walther shows that in many respects the fire-eaters differed markedly from one another. It was their very diversity, he maintains, that enabled them to appeal to such a wide spectrum of southern opinion and thereby rally support for secession. In his exploration of the role of the fire-eaters in the secession movement, Walther touches upon a number of perennial themes in southern history, including the appeal of proslavery thought and southern expansionism, the place of education and industrialization in antebellum southern society, the significance of oratory in southern culture, and the nature of southern nationalism. He also describes the fire-eaters' activities on behalf of the Confederacy and traces the course of their lives after the war. The Fire-Eaters makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Secession movement and the context in which it developed. There is no other study available that treats these men as a group and that delineates their manifold differences as well as their similarities. Walther shows that secessionism was not a monolithic ideology but rather a movement that emerged from many sources, spoke in many voices, and responded to a number of regional problems, needs, and aspirations.".
- catalog contributor b3576301.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Biography 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States History 1775-1865.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "In the early 1850s, northerners and southerners alike used the term fire-eater to describe anyone whose views were clearly outside the political mainstream. Eventually, though, the word came to be most closely identified with those southerners who were staunch and unyielding advocates of secession. In this broadly researched and illuminating study, Eric H. Walther examines the lives of nine of the most prominent fire-eaters: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, William Lowndes Yancey, John Anthony Quitman, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Laurence M. Keitt, Louis T. Wigfall, James D.B. De Bow, Edmund Ruffin, and William Porcher Miles. Walther paints skillful portraits of his subjects, analyzing their backgrounds, personalities, and contributions to the movement for disunion. Although they shared the common goal of southern independence, Walther shows that in many respects the fire-eaters differed markedly from one another. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index.".
- catalog description "It was their very diversity, he maintains, that enabled them to appeal to such a wide spectrum of southern opinion and thereby rally support for secession. In his exploration of the role of the fire-eaters in the secession movement, Walther touches upon a number of perennial themes in southern history, including the appeal of proslavery thought and southern expansionism, the place of education and industrialization in antebellum southern society, the significance of oratory in southern culture, and the nature of southern nationalism. He also describes the fire-eaters' activities on behalf of the Confederacy and traces the course of their lives after the war. The Fire-Eaters makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Secession movement and the context in which it developed. There is no other study available that treats these men as a group and that delineates their manifold differences as well as their similarities. ".
- catalog description "To make his mind the mind of other men : Nathaniel Beverley Tucker -- We shall fire the Southern heart : William Lowndes Yancey -- Honorable and useful ambition : John Anthony Quitman -- How best to control and use man : Robert Barnwell Rhett -- Palmetto recklessness and daring : Laurence M. Keitt and Louis T. Wigfall -- Ploughshares come before philosophy : James D.B. De Bow -- The great one idea of my life / Edmund Ruffin -- Abstractions : William Porcher Miles -- Conclusion : Conservative liberty has been vindicated.".
- catalog description "Walther shows that secessionism was not a monolithic ideology but rather a movement that emerged from many sources, spoke in many voices, and responded to a number of regional problems, needs, and aspirations.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 333 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807117315 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807117757 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Biography 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States History 1775-1865.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog subject "973.7/13 20".
- catalog subject "E459 .W25 1992".
- catalog subject "Secession Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Secession.".
- catalog tableOfContents "To make his mind the mind of other men : Nathaniel Beverley Tucker -- We shall fire the Southern heart : William Lowndes Yancey -- Honorable and useful ambition : John Anthony Quitman -- How best to control and use man : Robert Barnwell Rhett -- Palmetto recklessness and daring : Laurence M. Keitt and Louis T. Wigfall -- Ploughshares come before philosophy : James D.B. De Bow -- The great one idea of my life / Edmund Ruffin -- Abstractions : William Porcher Miles -- Conclusion : Conservative liberty has been vindicated.".
- catalog title "The fire-eaters / Eric H. Walther.".
- catalog type "text".