Honor and Violence in the Old South

Name: Honor and Violence in the Old South
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ISBN: 9780195042429

ISBN-10: 0195042425

ISBN-13: 9780195042429

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Authors: Bertram Wyatt-Brown

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Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J. Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites--both slaveholders and non-slaveholders--applied it to their lives. Wyatt-Brown argues persuasively that Southern ethical habits and traditions are the basis of regional distinctiveness and helped to perpetuate and justify the South's most cherised…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.03" wide x 5.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His books include Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South and The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family.




Foundations



Honor in Literary Perspective



The Nature of Primal Honor



Gentility



Family



Sexual Honor, Expectation, and Shame



Public Ethics



Hospitality, Gambling, and Personal Combat



Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares



Tar and Feathers: Community Disorder



Anatomy of a Wife-Killing


Suggested Readings


Index