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Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Essays examining the character of the Southern gentleman, representing the works of historian Bert Wyatt-Brown and stressing the plural–not monolithic–nature of the South –

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The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender and the Southern Imagination

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The Percys are notable, not only for their prominence in the political and economic development of the Mississippi Delta, but also for their literary creativity. In this text the author…

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Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Many scholars, according to Bertram Wyatt-Brown, have mistakenly attributed the coming of the Civil War solely to the slaveholding South’s determination to retain black bondage as a means of economic…

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Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War against Slavery

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

This portrait of Lewis Tappan (1788-1873) reveals how, in the 1830s, he and his brother underwrote and inspired the Manhattan headquarters of the American Anti-Slavery Society and founded many other…

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Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

This study explores the defining role of melancholy in southern literature from the early 19th century to the early 20th, when it evolved into modernist alienation. It develops insights into…

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A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

He then goes on to explore these themes within a wide range of military and political contexts, from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm, providing new insights on how honor…

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The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace and War 1760s-1880s

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Bertram Wyatt-Brown explores three major themes: the political aspects of the South’s code of honour; the increasing prominence of Protestant faith in white southerners’ lives; and the devastating impact of…

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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (University of Florida)

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as a work of enormous imagination and enterprise and in The New York Times…

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Virginia’s Civil War

Collects twenty essays that explore the Virginia story in the Civil War era. This title examines Robert E Lee and the issues confronting his men, such as soldier morale and…

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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (University of Florida)

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as “a work of enormous imagination and enterprise” and in The New York Times…

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Virginia’s Civil War

What did the Civil War mean to Virginia - and what did Virginia mean to the Civil War? These essays explore the Virginia story throughout the Civil War era. Building…

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Honor and Violence in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, University of Florida),Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a…

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The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, University of Florida)

Although the novels of Walker Percy represent some of the most prominent work in 20th-century Southern fiction, the Percy family itself has a history that is arguably as compelling as…

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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Richard J. Millbauer Professor of History (Emeritus), Richard J. Millbauer Professor of History (Emeritus), University of Florida)

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as a work of enormous imagination and enterprise and in The New York Times…

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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Richard J. Millbauer Professor of History (Emeritus), Richard J. Millbauer Professor of History (Emeritus), University of Florida)

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as a work of enormous imagination and enterprise and in The New York Times…

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Ely: An Autobiography

Ely Green

Straightforwardly recounting his early life, rising above bitterness and pain, Ely Green gives his readers an astoundingly honest and poignant portrait of a young man trying to come to terms…

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Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections

Gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, travelling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field’s…

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C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics

Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy. In this collection of essays, leading historians examine his writings…

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The Battlefield and Beyond: Essays on the American Civil War

Orville Vernon Burton,Paul D. Escott,Bertram Wyatt-Brown,Rosemarie Zagarri

Explores a tragic part of America’s history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues…

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