Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American HistoryMichael A. Bellesiles NYU Press, 1999 - 453 pagini By any standard, the United States is the most violent nation in the industrialized world. To find comparable levels of interpersonal violence, one must look to nations in the midst of civil war. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Authority | 43 |
Colonial and Revolutionary Era Slave Patrols of Virginia | 69 |
The Social Origins of Dueling in Virginia | 87 |
Women and Domestic Violence in NineteenthCentury | 115 |
Lewis Cheneys Plot and | 139 |
Vigilantism | 149 |
Women | 171 |
Innocence Guilt | 261 |
Judicial Paternalism and | 283 |
The Negro Would Be More Than an Angel | 295 |
Homosociality and the Legal Sanction of Male | 317 |
The Deviant | 327 |
Cultural Representations and Social Contexts of Rape | 353 |
Contraceptive Technology and | 373 |
Finding Justice in an Ungodly | 393 |
The Murder Trial | 185 |
Body Counts | 211 |
The Language of Lynching 18201953 | 229 |
Guns in American Homes | 425 |
Contributors | 441 |
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