| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stephen W. Berry II. All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 286. $28.00.

In the past decade, American historians have made masculinity studies one of the most dynamic and cutting-edge fields within the discipline. Much of the work looks at the numerous public events and rituals in which men participated and competed with each other for status and power. Rather than focusing on male rivalry, however, this book "is dedicated to the inner experience of masculinity [in the Old South], to the private landscapes men negotiated in their confrontation with what their society claimed a man should do and be" (p. 12). Perhaps the greatest obstacle to understanding these inner feelings, of course, is that nineteenth-century men are hardly renowned for their self-analysis, introspection, or intimate confessions. Living in a culture that considered emotion, generally, to be effeminate, men rarely committed their private thoughts to paper. As a result, Stephen W. Berry II is forced to rely on a fairly small number of subjects, many of whom appear to be more than a bit odd. It is not clear how many soulful, poetry-reading, day-dreaming men there were in the Old South, but the book seems full of them.

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