Honour Among Men and Nations: Transformations of an idea

by G. Best and Geoffrey Best

Book Overview

To no group subject to sociological and political analysis has honour seemed to matter more than to the military. Their idea of it has commonly been accepted as the most superior, open to emulation to the limited extent that different circumstances and purposes in non-military life permit.

The degeneration of this concept and of the public realm in which honour's obligations have to be observed is the subject of this book, based on the 1981...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802064728
• ISBN13: 9780802064721
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"