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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. He describes how Southern whites, living chiefly in small, rural, agrarian surroundings, in which everyone knew everyone else, established the local hierarchy of kinfolk and neighbors according to their individual and familial reputation. By claiming honor and dreading shame, they controlled their slaves, ruled their households, established the social rankings of themselves, kinfolk, and neighbors, and r

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Autorius: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Leidėjas: ACLS Humanities E-Book
Išleidimo metai: 2008
Knygos puslapių skaičius: 622
ISBN-13: 9781597404457
Formatas: 6 x 1.56 x 9 inches. Knyga minkštu viršeliu
Kalba: Anglų

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