Honor : a history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bowman, James, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Encounter Books, 2007.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the two kinds of honor
  • Part 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
  • Part II: the decline and fall of the Western honor culture, 1914-1975
  • What happened to honor? Modern warfare, therapy, and feminism
  • Honor between 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
  • Part 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?