From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity by Braudy, Leo

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679768302)

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From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity by Braudy, Leo

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity

$29.00
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity by Braudy, Leo

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity

$29.00
Format: Paperback
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Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship between the changing methods and goals of warfare and shifting models of manhood. This journey takes us from the citizen soldiers of ancient Greece to the medieval knights to the misogynistic terrorists of Al Qaeda.

As he chronicles these transformations, Leo Braudy weighs the significance of everything from weapon technology to the hairstyles favored during different eras. He offers fresh insights on codes of war and codes of racial purity, and on cultural and historical figures from Socrates to Don Quixote to Napoleon to Custer to Rambo. Epic in scope and free of academic jargon, From Chivalry to Terrorism is a masterwork of scholarship that is both accessible and breathtakingly ambitious.

Author: Leo Braudy
ISBN-10: 0679768300
ISBN-13: 9780679768302
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 613
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.22w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/22/2005 pg. 32
By Leo Braudy
By Leo Braudy
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Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Senior Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, as well as a writer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. His book, Jean Renoir: The World of His Films, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Another of his books, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Harper's. Mr. Braudy lives with his wife in Los Angeles.

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