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The Field of Honor - Essays on Southern Character and American Identity (Hardcover)
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The Field of Honor - Essays on Southern Character and American Identity (Hardcover)
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For more than thirty years, the study of honor has been fundamental
to understanding southern culture and history. Defined chiefly as
reputation or public esteem, honor penetrated virtually every
aspect of southern ethics and behavior, including race, gender,
law, education, religion, and violence. In The Field of Honor:
Essays on Southern Character and American Identity, editors John
Mayfield and Todd Hagstette bring together new research by twenty
emerging and established scholars who study the varied practices
and principles of honor in its American context, across an array of
academic disciplines. Following pathbreaking works by Bertram
Wyatt-Brown, Dickson D. Bruce, and Edward L. Ayers, this collection
notes that honor became a distinctive mark of southern culture and
something that-alongside slavery-set the South distinctly off from
the rest of the United States. This anthology brings together the
work of a variety of writers who collectively explore both honor's
range and its limitations, revealing a South largely divided
between the demands of honor and the challenges of an emerging
market culture-one common to the United States at large. They do so
by methodologically examining legal studies, market behaviors,
gender, violence, and religious and literary expressions. Honor
emerges here as a tool used to negotiate modernity's challenges
rather than as a rigid tradition and set of assumptions codified in
unyielding rules and rhetoric. Some topics are traditional for the
study of honor, some are new, but all explore the question: how
different really is the South from America writ large? The Field of
Honor builds an essential bridge between two distinct definitions
of southern-and, by extension, American-character and identity.
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