ISBN:
1601295677
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9781601295675
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9780195019438
,
0195019431
,
9780198020172
,
0198020171
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 397 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Strain of violence
DDC:
303.60973
Keywords:
Violence United States
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Violence États-Unis
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Vigilance, Comités de United States
;
Vigilance committees
;
Violence
;
Violence
;
Vigilance committees
;
Vigilance committees
;
Violence
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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