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Honor and Violence in the Old South
Häftad, 1994
374 kr
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Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation …
The House of Percy
Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
Häftad, 1996
742 kr
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The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of …
Southern Honor
Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
Häftad, 2007
449 kr
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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 …
House of Percy
Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
E-bok, 1996
506 kr
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The novels of Walker Percy-- The Moviegoer , Lancelot , The Second Coming , and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries …
Southern Honor
Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
E-bok, 2007
302 kr
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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 …
Southern Honor
Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
E-bok, 2007
302 kr
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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 …
Shaping of Southern Culture
Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s
Häftad, 2001
558 kr
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Extending his investigation into the ethical life of the white American south beyond ""Southern Honour"" (1982), Bertram Wyatt-Brown explores three major themes: the political aspects of the South's code of honour, the increasing prominence of Protestant faith in white southerners' lives, and the …
Warring Nation
Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
E-bok, 2014
514 kr
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In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert—and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before. Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that honor …
Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners
Häftad, 1990
280 kr
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Many scholars, according to Bertram Wyatt-Brown, have mistakenly attributed the coming of the Civil War solely to the slaveholding South's determination to retain black bondage as a means of economic and political advantage. That view, he maintains, too readily diminishes the ethical dynamics …
Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery
Häftad, 1997
467 kr
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Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), founder of the Journal of Commerce and the nation's first credit rating firm, is probably best known for his business accomplishments. His greatest achievement, however, was not finance but freedom. In the 1830s, he and his wealthy brother Arthur underwrote and inspired …
Hearts of Darkness
Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition
Häftad, 2002
377 kr
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From Edgar Allan Poe's ""dark forebodings"" to Kate Chopin's lifelong struggle with sorrow and loss, depression has shadowed southern letters. This beautifully realised study explores the defining role of melancholy in southern literature from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth, …
Virginia's Civil War
Av Peter Wallenstein, Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Inbunden, 2005
539 kr
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What did the Civil War mean to Virginia - and what did Virginia mean to the Civil War? On the eve of secession, Virginia had by far the largest population in the South, as well as the greatest number of slaves. A sea change in state politics after Fort Sumter led to the Commonwealth's seceding from …
Virginia's Civil War
Av Peter Wallenstein, Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Häftad, 2009
323 kr
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The twenty essays collected here explore the Virginia story throughout the Civil War era. Some contributors examine Robert E. Lee and the issues confronting his men, such as soldier morale and religious conversion. Others emphasize the wartime home front - in some cases reexamining its connection …
Warring Nation
Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
Inbunden, 2014
409 kr
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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 …
Literary Percys
Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination
Inbunden, 1994
2692 kr
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The Percys, one the most distinguished families in the South, are notable not only for their prominence in the political and economic development of the Mississippi Delta but also for their literary creativity. In The Literary Percys, noted historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown examines the role of gender …
