Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and VigilantismOxford University Press, 2 ian. 1975 - 408 pagini 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. |
Cuprins
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EARLY AMERICAN ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE | 37 |
The American Vigilante Tradition | 95 |
The San Francisco | 134 |
Legal and Behavioral | 144 |
Blacks and Whites | 185 |
Land | 236 |
A Selective Listing of American Colonial Riots | 301 |
Slave | 320 |
NOTES | 327 |
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Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism Richard Maxwell Brown Previzualizare limitată - 1975 |
Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism Richard Maxwell Brown Vizualizare fragmente - 1977 |
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Pagina 3 - I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not, there is even now something of ill omen amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country — the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober judgment of conrts, and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice.
Pagina 3 - Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana; they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter ; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slave-holding or the non-slave-holding states. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits.