{"product_id":"southern-honor-ethics-and-behavior-in-the-old-south-paperback","title":"Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBertram Wyatt-Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e as \"a work of enormous imagination and enterprise\" and in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e as \"an important, original book,\" \u003cem\u003eSouthern Honor\u003c\/em\u003e revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how\u003cbr\u003eSouthern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom.\u003cbr\u003e 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, living chiefly in small, rural, agrarian surroundings, in which everyone\u003cbr\u003eknew everyone else, established the local hierarchy of kinfolk and neighbors according to their individual and familial reputation. By claiming honor and dreading shame, they controlled their slaves, ruled their households, established the social rankings of themselves, kinfolk, and neighbors, and\u003cbr\u003eresponded ferociously against perceived threats. The shamed and shameless sometimes suffered grievously for defying community norms. Wyatt-Brown further explains how a Southern elite refined the ethic. Learning, gentlemanly behavior, and deliberate rather than reckless resort to arms softened the\u003cbr\u003ecruder form, which the author calls \"primal honor.\" In either case, honor required men to demonstrate their prowess and engage in fierce defense of individual, family, community, and regional reputation by duel, physical encounter, or war. Subordination of African-Americans was uppermost in this\u003cbr\u003eSouthern ethic. Any threat, whether from the slaves themselves or from outside agitation, had to be met forcefully. Slavery was the root cause of the Civil War, but, according to Wyatt-Brown, honor pulled the trigger. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this anniversary edition of a classic\u003cbr\u003ework offers readers a compelling view of Southern culture before the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBertram Wyatt-Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e is Richard J. Milbauer Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. The author of \u003cem\u003eHouse of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War\u003c\/em\u003e, he is past president of the Southern Historical Association, the Society for Historians of Early American History, and the St. George Tucker Society. He lives in Baltimore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256336343142,"sku":"9780195325171","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Q0J0cFJsYWdoVlFEMElrQ2Q4MDJrZz09.webp?v=1773715830","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/southern-honor-ethics-and-behavior-in-the-old-south-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}