Southern honor : ethics and behavior in the old South /
"Bertram Wyatt-Brown's wide-ranging re-examination of pre-Civil War Southern culture demonstrates the pervasiveness of the age-old code of honor in many aspects of human relations, from child-rearing habits to criminal justice and lynch law. The author shows that honor was the animating fo...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1982.
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