Honor A History

Name: Honor A History
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ISBN: 9781594031427

ISBN-10: 1594031428

ISBN-13: 9781594031427

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Bowman

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The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an alarming network of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London became the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamist terror and extremism - so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed Londonistan. In this ground-breaking book, Melanie Phillips pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed as a result of the collapse of British self-confidence and national identity and its resulting paralysis by multiculturalism and appeasement. The result is an ugly climate in Britain of irrationality and defeatism, which now threatens to…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 4/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 265
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584



Introduction: The Two Kinds of Honor



Cultural Honor, East and West



"We Are Men": The Islamic Honor Culture and the West



Rightly to Be Great: The Origins of the Western Honor Culture



Aristocracy and Democracy: Honor Democratized



The Decline and Fall of the Western Honor Culture, 1914-1975



What Happened to Honor? Modern Warfare, Therapy and Feminism



Honor Between the Wars: The Cult of Youth



World War II: Honor and the Progressive Spirit



Honor in Postwar America: Korea and the 1950s



Vietnam: War As Social Therapy and Psychological Trauma



Post-Honor Society



Vietnam and the Loss of Cultural Honor



The Aristocracy of Feeling: Honor As Celebrity



Honor's Revival: Why Do We Need It? Is It Possible?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index