| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s–1890s. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx, 412 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2596-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4912-X.)

In the past twenty years, historians have redefined the concept of honor as an ethical and behaviorial standard rather than as a traditional code of manliness. No scholar has been as influential in this redefining of honor as Bertram Wyatt-Brown, whose 1982 book, Southern Honor, still dominates the literature on the subject. In this collection of essays, he extends, revises, and refines the lineaments of honor that he so skillfully put forth almost two decades ago. The result is similar to his magisterial treatise, serving both as a reiteration and extension of that significant contribution to southern history and as an outline for future study. . . .

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