Uses for Horsehair
David Blackbourn, 9 February 1995
Duelling: The Cult of Honour in Fin-de-Siècle Germany
by Kevin McAleer.
Princeton, 268 pp., £19.95, January 1995,0 691 03462 1 Show More
by Kevin McAleer.
Princeton, 268 pp., £19.95, January 1995,
“... and the desire of rulers to establish their legitimacy in a revolutionary age. I wish that McAleer, who races through the first two-thirds of the 19th century, had said something about this background of invented traditions, especially given the importance of ‘neo-chivalry’ to his argument. Duelling was abolished in England in 1844: the Queensberry ... ”