Strain of violence : historical studies of American violence and vigilantism /
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 viole...
| Основен автор: | Brown, Richard Maxwell. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1975.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=144063 |
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Print version::
Strain of violence. |
Съдържание:
- 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.