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

by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Book Overview

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor--a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert--and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.

Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that honor cannot be understood without considering the role of humiliation, which not only sets victor apart from vanquished but drives the search for vindication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813934745
• ISBN13: 9780813934747
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher