Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as a work of enormous imagination and enterprise and in The New York Times as an important, original book, Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, letters, diaries, and newspaper columns,Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examples to illuminate the dynamics of Southern life throughout the antebellum period.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-532517-1
EAN: 9780195325171
Produktnummer: 22675191
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 640 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.7 cm 593 g
Auflage: Anniversary
Gewicht: 593

Über den Autor

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. The author of House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family and The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, he is past president of the Southern Historical Association, the Society for Historians of Early American History, and the St. George TuckerSociety. He lives in Baltimore.