Southern honor [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and behavior in the old South / / Bertram Wyatt-Brown

• Autore: Wyatt-Brown Bertram <1932->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Edizione: 25th anniversary ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (949 p.)
• Disciplina: 975
• Soggetto topico: Honor
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Civilization; Southern States Moral conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Life ; Status, 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Southern honor
• ISBN: 0-19-771640-7; 0-19-532517-6; 0-19-503310-8; 0-19-987458-1; 1-281-34704-3; 0-19-972562-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247963203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno