Honor : a history
James Bowman
Bok Engelsk 2006
Utgitt | New York : Encounter Books , 2006
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Omfang | 381 s.
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Opplysninger | Heftet utgave gitt ut 2007. - 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?
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ISBN | 978-1-59403-198-4
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