A book by Bertram Wyatt-Brown analyzes how people in this region committed violence in order to uphold unwritten codes of reputation.
A book by Bertram Wyatt-Brown analyzes how people in this region committed violence in order to uphold unwritten codes of reputation. Another book argues that this region became obsessed with a "cult of gyneolatry," in which it strategically idolized an ideal female image. That book was written by W. J. Cash, and is named for the "mind" of this region. An essay collection about the "burden" of this place's history was written by C. Vann Woodward, who specialized in studying it. V. O. Key wrote a classic about the politics of this region, whose occupation was criticized by E. Merton Coulter and other historians of the Dunning School. Mark Twain claimed that Walter Scott's novels did "measureless harm" to this region by inspiring its residents to believe in "sham chivalries." For 10 points, name this region of the United States where factions like the Fire-Eaters sparked the Civil War.
A book by Bertram Wyatt-Brown analyzes how people in this region committed violence in order to uphold unwritten codes of reputation.
the American  South