03747nam 2200769 a 450 991045804890332120200520144314.00-19-532517-60-19-503310-80-19-987458-11-281-34704-30-19-972562-4(CKB)1000000000396029(EBL)716702(OCoLC)278139844(SSID)ssj0000084890(PQKBManifestationID)11998246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084890(PQKBWorkID)10006772(PQKB)10127474(SSID)ssj0000309954(PQKBManifestationID)11233346(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309954(PQKBWorkID)10287056(PQKB)10449002(MiAaPQ)EBC431400(MiAaPQ)EBC5567704(MiAaPQ)EBC716702(Au-PeEL)EBL431400(CaPaEBR)ebr10279405(OCoLC)609832553(Au-PeEL)EBL716702(CaONFJC)MIL134704(Au-PeEL)EBL5567704(OCoLC)1064963333(EXLCZ)99100000000039602920071115d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSouthern honor[electronic resource] ethics and behavior in the old South /Bertram Wyatt-Brown25th anniversary ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (949 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-532516-8 0-19-503119-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; Part One: Origins And Definitions; Honor in Literary Perspective; Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding; Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy; Gentility; Part Two: Family and Gender Behavior; Fathers, Mothers, and Progeny; Male Youth and Honor; A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits; Strategies of Courtship and Marriage; Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-image; Law, Property, and Male Dominance; Male Custom in Family LifeStatus, Law, and Sexual MisconductPart Three: Structures of Rivalry and Social Control; Personal Strategies and Community Life: Hospitality, Gambling, and Combat; Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy; Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares; Charivari and Lynch Law; The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing; Lists of Abbreviations and Short Titles; Notes; IndexA 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,HonorSouthern StatesCivilizationSouthern StatesMoral conditionsElectronic books.Honor.975Wyatt-Brown Bertram1932-152769MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458048903321Southern honor470401UNINA