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Southern Honor
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
其他書名
Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
出版Oxford University Press, 1982
主題History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Psychology / Social Psychology
ISBN01950331089780195033106
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rjLZ8C_QjqMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.