LEADER 03782nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910822266703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-771640-7 010 $a0-19-532517-6 010 $a0-19-503310-8 010 $a0-19-987458-1 010 $a1-281-34704-3 010 $a0-19-972562-4 024 7 $a2027/heb00819 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396029 035 $a(EBL)716702 035 $a(OCoLC)278139844 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084890 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11998246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084890 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10006772 035 $a(PQKB)10127474 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000309954 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233346 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309954 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287056 035 $a(PQKB)10449002 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279405 035 $a(OCoLC)609832553 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL716702 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL134704 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5567704 035 $a(OCoLC)1064963333 035 $a(dli)HEB00819 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003865529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431400 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396029 100 $a20071115d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSouthern honor$b[electronic resource] $eethics and behavior in the old South /$fBertram Wyatt-Brown 205 $a25th anniversary ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (949 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-532516-8 311 $a0-19-503119-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover 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 Life 327 $aStatus, 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; Index 330 $aA 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, 606 $aHonor 607 $aSouthern States$xCivilization 607 $aSouthern States$xMoral conditions 615 0$aHonor. 676 $a975 700 $aWyatt-Brown$b Bertram$f1932-$0152769 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822266703321 996 $aSouthern honor$9470401 997 $aUNINA