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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 Sout...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-2012 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2007].
Edición:25th anniversary ed.
Temas:
Honor.
Honneur.
Civilization.
Moral conditions.
Southern States > Civilization.
Southern States > Moral conditions.
États-Unis (Sud) > Civilisation.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions morales.
Southern States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
  • Part One: Origins and Definitions
  • 1. Honor in Literary Perspective
  • 2. Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding
  • 3. Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy
  • 4. Gentility
  • Part Two: Family and Gender Behavior
  • 5. Fathers, Mothers, and Progeny
  • 6. Male Youth and Honor
  • 7. A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits
  • 8. Strategies of Courtship and Marriage
  • 9. Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image
  • 10. Law, Property, and Male Dominance
  • 11. Male Custom in Family Life
  • 12. Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct
  • Part Three: Structures of Rivalry and Social Control
  • 13. Personal Strategies and Community Life: Hospitality, Gambling, and Combat
  • 14. Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy
  • 15. Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares
  • 16. Charivari and Lynch Law
  • 17. The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing
  • List of Abbreviations and Short Titles
  • Notes
  • Index.

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