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Southern honor: ethics and behavior in the old South
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Frontmatter
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PART ONE ORIGINS AND DEFINITIONS
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1. Honor in Literary Perspective (page 3)
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2. Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding (page 25)
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3. Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy (page 62)
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4 Gentility (page 88)
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PART TWO FAMILY AND GENDER BEHAVIOR
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5. Fathers Mothers, and Progeny (page 117)
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6. Male Youth and Honor (page 149)
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7. A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits (page 175)
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8. Strategies of Courtship and Marriage (page 199)
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9. Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image (page 226)
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10. Law, Property, and Male Dominance (page 254)
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11. Male Custom in Family Life (page 272)
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12. Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct (page 292)
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PART THREE STRUCTURES OF RIVALRY AND SOCIAL CONTROL
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13. Personal Strategies and Community Life: (page 327)
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14. Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy (page 362)
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15. Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares (page 402)
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16. Charivari and Lynch Law (page 435)
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17 The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing (page 462)
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List of Abbreviations and Short Titles (page 497)
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Notes (page 501)
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Index (page 583)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AQ | 36.1 (Spring 1984): 145-153 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%28198421%2936%3A1%3C145%3AHAPITO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
RAH | 12.1 (Mar. 1984): 24-30 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198403%2912%3A1%3C24%3ATCOHIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6 |
JAH | 70.2 (Sep. 1983): 414-415 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198309%2970%3A2%3C414%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
AHR | 88.3 (Jun. 1983): 753-754 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198306%2988%3A3%3C753%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y |
JSH | 49.2 (May 1983): 287-288 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28198305%2949%3A2%3C287%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L |
Citable Link
Published: 1983
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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