Description
Book Synopsis* A wide--ranging and engagingly written social history of the duel* Presents a new argument: that the duel didna t die out in the 19th century as was previously thought, but continued until the 1st World War and beyond* A topic of potential media interest; it should be widely reviewed. .
Trade Review"An impressive historiographical achievement."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"This is a scholarly, imaginative and lively book. Frevert writes extremely perceptively about the contradictions and conflicts of the period." Peter Burke, University of Cambridge
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
1. Between the brawl and the duel of honour: the early modern era.
2. The Enlightenment, public opinion and state policy on duelling.
3. The honour of officers.
4. 'Scholastic' honour and academic duelling.
5. Freedom, equality, masculinity.
6. The demise of duelling: the twentieth century.
Appendices.
Sources and Bibliography.
Notes.
Index.
