The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890sExtending his investigation into the ethical life of the white American South beyond what he wrote in Southern Honor (1982), Bertram Wyatt Brown explores three major themes in southern history: the political aspects of the South's code of honor, the increasing prominence of Protestant faith in white southerners' lives, and the devastating impact of war, defeat, and an angry loss of confidence during the post Civil War era. This eloquent and richly