ISBN:
9780195040890
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (316 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture
DDC:
305.8/96073/073
Keywords:
National characteristics, American
;
Slavery
;
Slavery - United States
;
Violence
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of the author's selected essays reflect his wide-ranging interests in American colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences and American literature. Amongst his topics are capital punishment, the American anti-slavery movement and the cowboy as American hero
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; I. VIOLENCE AND VIRILITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE; 1. Murder in New Hampshire; 2. The Movement To Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861; 3. Violence in American Literature; 4. Stress-Seeking and the Self-Made Man in American Literature, 1894-1914; II. THE REDEEMING WEST; 5. Ten-Gallon Hero; 6. The Deerslayer, A Democratic Knight of the Wilderness: Cooper, 1841; 7. Marlboro Country; 8. Secrets of the Mormons; III. PROBLEMS OF LOYALTY AND IDENTITY; 9. Patricide and Regicide
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature11. Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America; 12. The American Family and Boundaries in Historical Perspective; IV. STUDIES IN SLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY; 13. Slavery, and the Post-World War II Historians; 14. Of Human Bondage; 15. Out of the Shadows; 16. New Sidelights on Early Antislavery Radicalism; 17. The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought; 18. James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement
Description / Table of Contents:
19. American Slavery and the American Revolution
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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