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Author Chodes, John J.

Title Destroying the republic : Jabez Curry and the re-education of the old south / John Chodes.

Publication Info. New York : Algora Pub., [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Advocate for state sovereignty -- Curry and the Confederacy -- Early Georgia years -- Curry goes to war -- Jabez Curry, political exile -- Curry's background : going to Alabama -- Southern preaching as guerrilla war -- Reconstruction as re-education -- Curry's background : Alabama politics to Congress -- Curry's mental transition -- Jabez Curry and the Peabody Education Fund -- Rutherford B. Hayes, Curry, and the Peabody Fund -- The Blair bill : a step toward nationalized schools -- John Eaton's Bureau of Education : the new psychology -- The new psychology becomes a curriculum -- Conclusion one : ambassador to Spain on the edge of war -- Conclusion two : Peabody again, Spain again, disillusion.
Summary Jabez Curry was an aristocratic Alabamian. In the ante-bellum South he had a distinguished career in both the Alabama Assembly and the United States Congress. He tirelessly advocated the principles of state sovereignty and limited Federal Governmental pow.
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Subject Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-1903.
Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-1903.
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe, 1825-1903.
Educators -- United States -- Biography.
Educators.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
Ambassadors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Chodes, John J. Destroying the republic. New York : Algora Pub., ©2005 0875864015 0875864023 (DLC) 2005013096 (OCoLC)60375716
ISBN 0875864023 (electronic book)
9780875864020 (electronic book)
0875864031 (ebook)
9780875864037 (e-book)
128139551X
9781281395511
0875864015 (paperback ; trade paper ; alkaline paper)
9780875864013