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Title
Honor : a history
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Encounter Books, 2006.
Description
381 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
179.9 B784 2006
System Control No.
(OCoLC)63178867
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-359) and index.
Contents: I: Cultural honor, east and west -- "We are men": the Islamic honor culture and the west -- Rightly to be great: the origins of the western honor culture -- Aristocracy and democracy: honor democratized II: The decline and fall of the western honor culture, 1914-1975 -- What happened to honor? Modern warfare, therapy and feminism -- Honor between the wars: the cult of youth -- World War II: honor and the progressive spirit -- Honor in postwar America: Korea and the 1950s -- Vietnam: war as social therapy and psychological trauma -- III: Post-honor society -- Vietnam and the loss of cultural honor -- The aristocracy of feeling: honor as celebrity -- Honor's revival: why do we need it? Is it possible?
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Contents: I: Cultural honor, east and west -- "We are men": the Islamic honor culture and the west -- Rightly to be great: the origins of the western honor culture -- Aristocracy and democracy: honor democratized II: The decline and fall of the western honor culture, 1914-1975 -- What happened to honor? Modern warfare, therapy and feminism -- Honor between the wars: the cult of youth -- World War II: honor and the progressive spirit -- Honor in postwar America: Korea and the 1950s -- Vietnam: war as social therapy and psychological trauma -- III: Post-honor society -- Vietnam and the loss of cultural honor -- The aristocracy of feeling: honor as celebrity -- Honor's revival: why do we need it? Is it possible?
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