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A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad Hardback - 2014

by Bertram Wyatt-Brown; Prepared by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown

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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 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.

He then goes on to explore these themes within a wide range of military and political contexts, from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm, providing new insights on how honor drove decision making during many defining events in our history that continue to reverberate in the American mind.

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  • Title A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
  • Author Bertram Wyatt-Brown; Prepared by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Publication date 2014-01-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780813934747 / 0813934745
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Military, War and society - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013023886
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.009

About the author

The late Bertram Wyatt-Brown was Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Florida and the author of numerous works of Southern history, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South.

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