A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 by Stephen Banks

A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850

Stephen Banks

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This book, the most comprehensive study of the English pistol duel yet undertaken, examines what it meant to be a man of honour in eighteenth and nineteenth century England. A thorough survey of the incidence and distribution of duelling, both soc...

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