Strain of violence : historical studies of American violence and vigilantism / Richard Maxwell Brown

Author: Brown, Richard Maxwell
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages)

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English.

Contents

1. Patterns of American Violence; Part II: EARLY AMERICAN ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE AND EXTREMISM; 2. Violence and the American Revolution; 3. South Carolina Extremism and Its Violent Origins: From the Regulator Movement to the Edgefield Tradition, 1760-1960; Part III: VIGILANTISM: THE CONSERVATIVE MOB; 4. The American Vigilante Tradition; 5. Pivot of American Vigilantism: The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856; 6. Lawless Lawfulness: Legal and Behavioral Perspectives on American Vigilantism; Part IV: VIOLENT PATHS TO THE PRESENT.

Summary

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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1601295677
9781601295675
9780198020172 (electronic bk.)
0198020171 (electronic bk.)
9780195019438 (Cloth)
0195019431 (Cloth)
9786610439072
6610439079
1280439076
9781280439070
0195019431

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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