Honor : a history


James Bowman
Bok Engelsk 2006
Utgitt
New York : Encounter Books , 2006
Omfang
381 s.
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?
Emner
Geografisk emneord
Europa : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02153. - USA : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01695
Dewey
ISBN
978-1-59403-198-4

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