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A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Description for A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTV; JFM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
In this final work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honour--a subject on which he was an acknowledged expert--and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.
Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that honour cannot be understood without considering the role of humiliation, which not only sets victor apart from vanquished but drives the search for vindication that is integral to notions of honour. The American conception of honour is further deepened by issues of race. The author turns to the slave South to show how ... Read more
In this final work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honour--a subject on which he was an acknowledged expert--and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.
Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that honour cannot be understood without considering the role of humiliation, which not only sets victor apart from vanquished but drives the search for vindication that is integral to notions of honour. The American conception of honour is further deepened by issues of race. The author turns to the slave South to show how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934747
SKU
V9780813934747
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About Bertram Wyatt-Brown
The late Bertram Wyatt-Brown was Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Florida, USA and the author of numerous works of southern history, including the Pulitzer Prize–nominated Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South.
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