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A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad

A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad

Wyatt-Brown, Anne M.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram

Hardcover

Armed ForcesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0813934745
ISBN13: 9780813934747
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jan 1 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 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 honor. The American conception of honor is further deepened by issues of race. The author turns to the slave South to show how white and black concepts of honor differed from and contradicted each other, illuminating honor's elusive but powerful role in our society.

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