Honour Among Men and Nations : Transformations of an idea, Best, Geoffrey<-

Honour Among Men and NationsTransformations of an Idea\nAuthor(s): Geoffrey Best\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802064721, 978-0802064721\nSynopsis\nTo no group subject to sociological and political analysis has honour seemed to matter more than to the military. Their idea of it has commonly been accepted as the most superior, open to emulation to the limited extent that different circumstances and purposes in non-military life permit.\n\n The degeneration of this concept and of the public realm in which honours obligations have to be observed is the subject of this book, based on the 1981 Joanne Goodman Lectures at the University of Western Ontario.\n\n Best begins with the discovery, in the age of the American and French revolutions, of the nation as the supreme object of honourable service. He discusses how nationalism and democracy marched together through the nineteenth century to harden this.