Contents
Member Institution Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
1. VMI: Challenging the Northern Story of Antebellum Engineering
2. Education and White Manhood in the Struggle for Political Power
3. Creating the “West Point of the South”
4. Engineering Knowledge and the Struggle for Authority in Higher Education
5. Engineering as a Profession of Service to the Progress of Virginia
6. The Necessary White Manhood of Engineering
7. Secession: Realigning Identity and Power
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments