Honor and Violence in the Old SouthHailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites both