Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism

Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism
ISBN-10
0198020171
ISBN-13
9780198020172
Category
History
Pages
418
Language
English
Published
1975-01-02
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Richard Maxwell Brown

Description

These essays, written by leading historian of violence and Presidential Commission consultant Richard Maxwell Brown, consider the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order. Covering violent incidents from colonial American to the present, Brown presents illuminating discussions of violence and the American Revolution, black-white conflict from slave revolts to the black ghetto riots of the 1960s, the vigilante tradition, and two of America's most violent regions--Central Texas, whic.

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