Author: HOLLAND, BARBARA
Title: Gentlemen's blood : a history of dueling from swords at dawn to pistols at dusk
Description: London : Bloomsbury Publishing 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp cornered. Literally 'as new'.; 304 pages; Description: 304 p. : ill. Summary: The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol. with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private. public. and political life. and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for. in fact. they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article. Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable. often gruesome. sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.ISBN: 1582343667. Weight in Kg appr.:

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