Over the threshold : intimate violence in early America edited by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daniels, Christine, 1953-

Kennedy, Michael V., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family violence--United States--History.

Family violence.

Local Subjects:

Family violence--United States--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1999.

Contents:

Intimate violence now and then / Christine Daniels

Personal violence in a "peaceable kingdom" : Pennsylvania, 1682-1801 / G.S. Rowe and Jack D. Marietta

Governing the passions : the eighteenth century quest for domestic harmony in Philadelphia's middle-class households / Jacquelyn C. Miller

Spousal murder in northern New England, 1776-1865 / Randolph A. Roth

"My mind is to drown you and leave you behind" : "Omie Wise", intimate violence, and masculinity / Edward E. Baptist

"He murdered her because he loved her" " Passion, masculinity, and intimate homicide in antebellum America / Ed Hatton

"A new home" for whom? : Caroline Kirkland exposes domestic abuse on the Michigan frontier / Jenifer Banks

Keeping the peace : domestic assault and private prosecution in antebellum Baltimore / Stephanie Cole

"Unnatural mothers" : infanticide, motherhood, and class in the mid-Atlantic, 1730-1830 / Merril D. Smith

Laying claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker : family violence on Baltimore's waterfront, 1808-1812 / James D. Rice

Domestic violence : manners, class, and abuse in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy / Jeffrey H. Richards

"As if there was not master or woman in the land" : gender, dependency, and household violence in Virginia, 1646-1720 / Terri L. Snyder

Theater of terror : domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaica, 1750-1786 / Trevor Burnard

"I have got the gun and will do as I please with her" : African-Americans and violence in Maryland, 1782-1830 / T. Stephen Whitman

Within the slave cabin : violence in Mississippi slave families / Christopher Morris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415918049 (hc.)

0415918057 (pbk.)

OCLC:

40119696