Honor

A History

By: James Bowman

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Paperback | 4 April 2007

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The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating history of this ideal, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and to the killing fields of World War I and the despair of Vietnam. Bowman reminds us that the fate of honor and the fate of morality and even manners are deeply interrelated.

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Introduction: The Two Kinds of Honor	p. 1
Cultural Honor, East and West
"We Are Men": The Islamic Honor Culture and the West	p. 15
Rightly to Be Great: The Origins of the Western Honor Culture	p. 41
Aristocracy and Democracy: Honor Democratized	p. 67
The Decline and Fall of the Western Honor Culture, 1914-1975
What Happened to Honor? Modern Warfare, Therapy and Feminism	p. 95
Honor Between the Wars: The Cult of Youth	p. 121
World War II: Honor and the Progressive Spirit	p. 151
Honor in Postwar America: Korea and the 1950s	p. 179
Vietnam: War As Social Therapy and Psychological Trauma	p. 207
Post-Honor Society
Vietnam and the Loss of Cultural Honor	p. 235
The Aristocracy of Feeling: Honor As Celebrity	p. 263
Honor's Revival: Why Do We Need It? Is It Possible?	p. 293
Acknowledgments	p. 325
Notes	p. 329
Index	p. 361
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