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Tango01 | 04 Aug 2018 10:08 p.m. PST |
….DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA. "In American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era, Craig Bruce Smith, a professor of history at William Woods University, traces the role that honor, virtue and ethics played in guiding the American colonists towards conflict with England, their role in shaping the war, and finally how they in turn were shaped by the conflict.[1] Beyond merely tracing the concepts of honor before, during and after the war, Smith theorizes that the changing conceptions of honor were in fact among the conflict's causes, even as the conflict in turn allowed for the ideas surrounding honor to "become broadly instituted in society." Ambitiously, Smith promises nothing short of "a new causation narrative of the American Revolution."…."
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