"An abridgement of his Southern Honor and an articulate treatment of white culture in the Old South. Students find it interesting and provocative."--Daniel Kilbride, Hollins College

"A work of enormous imagination and enterprise, one that has the audacity to see a vast realm of human experience through a single lens and the authority to make that view seem not merely plausible but incontrovertible...Wyatt-Brown has altered and deepened our understanding of the Southern past--and thus, inevitably, of the American past as well."--Washington Post Book World

"A good short study. Will consider as recommended reading."--Harvey H. Jackson, Jacksonville State Univ.

"In this abridgement of his prize-winning Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South, Wyatt-Brown masterfully dissects the complex social code that bound, and gave meaning to, the lives of white Southerners, rich as well as poor."--Wilson Quarterly

"One of the very best books about the South...A model of what scholarly writing can be: a rather bold thesis rigorously defended with logic and with innumerable supporting citations, each kept brief and deftly fitted into the overall design."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"An enormous academic accomplishment."--Harper's

"Southern Honor, a wide-ranging, innovative, and highly readable analysis of white social relations in the Old South, will make it impossible to ignore honor as a major ideology in southern history....It is a major contribution to our understanding of the ways southern women and men made their ethical choices in times and circumstances not always of their own choosing."--Journal of American History

"An original stimulus to interpretation and a treasury of important and fascinating information."--Journal of Southern History

"A most thorough-going examination of the code of honor of white Southern culture in pre-Civil War times."--Antioch Review

"An important, original book. Along with W.J. Cash's classic study 'The Mind of the South, ' this is one of the few serious attempts to recreate the lost world of the South."--The New York Times Book Review

"An abridgment of his 600-page tour-de-force, but it retains the provocative concepts and stimulating use of sources found in the original....This...version of [his] earlier work is the best book to introduce the subject to students of history, among whom, no doubt, the author's interpretations will continue to provoke debate."--The Historian