{"product_id":"honor-and-violence-in-the-old-south-9780195042429","title":"Honor and Violence in the Old South","description":"Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's \u003cem\u003e Southern Honor\u003c\/em\u003e now appears in abridged form under the title \u003cem\u003eHonor and Violence in the Old South.\u003c\/em\u003e Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major\u003cbr\u003ereinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J. Cash's \u003cem\u003eThe Mind of the South.\u003c\/em\u003e It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites--both slaveholders and non-slaveholders--applied it to their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wyatt-Brown argues persuasively that Southern ethical habits and traditions are the basis of regional distinctiveness and helped to perpetuate and justify the South's most cherised peculiarity: the institution of slavery. Using both literature and anthropology in innovative ways, Wyatt-Brown shows\u003cbr\u003ehow honor affected family loyalty and community defensiveness. He also explains why, though it preceded and outlasted the demise of slavery, honor thrived on race oppression and was manifested in such violent acts as rape, lynching, and slave discipline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The work begins with a study of Hawthorne's famous story of a tar-and-feathering, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, and ends with an authentic lynching, an absorbing and chilling example of a public shaming ritual. Between these studies of fictional and historical violence, Wyatt-Brown deals with such\u003cbr\u003ewide-ranging topics as childbearing, marital patterns, gentility, legal traditions, duelling, hospitality, slave discipline, lynch-law, and insurrectionary panic--all of which were matters that gave white Southerners a special sense of themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bertram Wyatt-Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.37w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195042429\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929236553843,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_36803d78-79f6-45e5-906b-f7e0d714d913.jpg?v=1647612368","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/honor-and-violence-in-the-old-south-9780195042429","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}