Strain of violence : historical studies of American violence and vigilantism / Richard Maxwell Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Richard Maxwell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--United States.

Violence.

Vigilance committees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1960's, the vigilante tradition, and two of America's most violent regions--Central Texas, which...

Contents:

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

7. Living Together Violently: Blacks and Whites in America from the Colonial Period to 1970 8. The Violent Region of Central Texas: Land of Lyndon B. Johnson; APPENDIX 1. A Selective Listing of American Colonial Riots, 1641-1759; APPENDIX 2. A Selective Listing of Riots in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1775; APPENDIX 3. American Vigilante Movements, 1767-1904; APPENDIX 4. Black-White Violence, 1663-1970: Slave Insurgencies; Riots; Lynchings; NOTES; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-43907-6

0-19-802017-1

1-60129-567-7

OCLC:

191038006