Current research on the history and evolution of moral standards and their role in Southern society For more than thirty years, the study of honor has been fundamental to understanding southern culture and history. Defined chiefly as reputation or public esteem, honor penetrated virtually every aspect of southern ethics and behavior, including race, gender, law, education, religion, and violence. In The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity, editors John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette bring together new research by twenty emerging and established scholars who study the varied practices and principles of honor in its American context, across an array of academic disciplines. Following pathbreaking works by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Dickson D. Bruce, and Edward L. Ayers, this collection notes that honor became a distinctive mark of southern culture and something that—alongside slavery—set the South distinctly off from the rest of the United States. This anthology brings together the work of a variety of writers who collectively explore both honor's range and its limitations, revealing a South largely divided between the demands of honor and the challenges of an emerging market culture—one common to the United States at large. They do so by methodologically examining legal studies, market behaviors, gender, violence, and religious and literary expressions. Honor emerges here as a tool used to negotiate modernity's challenges rather than as a rigid tradition and set of assumptions codified in unyielding rules and rhetoric. Some topics are traditional for the study of honor, some are new, but all explore the question: how different really is the South from America writ large? The Field of Honor builds an essential bridge between two distinct definitions of southern—and, by extension, American—character and identity.

A contemporary of Lorca and Buñuel in Spain’s Second Republic, Max Aub escaped into a life of exile after General Franco seized Barcelona. His masterpiece, acknowledged in Spain as one of the best accounts of the Spanish Civil War, is the five-novel cycle known as The Magic Labyrinth—never before translated into English. A playwright as well as a novelist, he brings the period alive through vibrant dialogue and a story that navigates the factional intrigues that eventually erupted onto the streets in violence. The protagonist of the first novel is Rafael López Serrador, whose coming of age in Barcelona introduces a cast from all walks of city life—Catalan nationalists, anarchists, Falangists, government ministers and showgirls. Just as central a character is Barcelona itself, lovingly depicted. Rafael’s adventures bring him into contact with the forces that were to destroy the Republic and determine the bloody course of the Spanish Civil War. Masterfully translated by Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, Max Aub’s novel is set to introduce to an English-speaking audience a classic of Spanish and Latin American literature—an account of the Spanish Civil War to compare with Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Journey to the front lines of World War I in Frances Wilson Huard’s stirring memoir, My Home in the Field of Honor. Through the eyes of a woman living in France during the Great War, Huard recounts her experiences of courage, compassion, and resilience amid the horrors of battle. Huard’s vivid storytelling captures the struggles of maintaining a home and caring for wounded soldiers, while war rages on all around her. Her memoir offers an intimate glimpse into the strength required to face unimaginable hardships and the enduring human spirit. But can one person’s bravery make a difference in the face of such destruction? How do you keep hope alive when everything around you is falling apart? My Home in the Field of Honor is both a testament to the courage of those who lived through the war and a powerful reminder of the personal costs of global conflict. Huard’s narrative brings to life the emotional and physical challenges faced by civilians on the home front. Are you ready to step into the shoes of a woman whose home became a battlefield?This heartfelt memoir offers a poignant look at the impact of war and the resilience of the human spirit. Don’t miss the chance to read this extraordinary account. Purchase My Home in the Field of Honor today and witness the strength of one woman in the face of overwhelming odds.Get your copy of My Home in the Field of Honor now and experience the triumph of the human spirit during one of history’s darkest times.