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Book Review

Canada and the United States


Bertram Wyatt-Brown. The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 412. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

When Bertram Wyatt-Brown published Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South twenty years ago, he was a pioneer. No other historian had taken the subject of honor in the American South so seriously and had written about it with such sophistication, complexity, and elegance. Southern Honor can now be seen as a classic in the field, inspiring and pointing the way for many other scholars to follow. Wyatt-Brown was the first modern historian to understand that southern honor was not simply a quaint anachronism of a bygone age but rather a set of practices and beliefs that pervaded the culture and marked many of its central features. . . .


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