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, which witnessed some of the nastiest Indian wars of the West, and secessionist leader South Carolina's old Back Country. Brown's incisive look into the past holds profound implications for our present as well as our future.
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Strain of Violence, South Carolina, San Francisco, Civil War, Back Country, New York, The Violent Region of Central Texas, John Wesley Hardin, United States, New Mexico, World War, Living Together Violently, Comanche County, New Orleans, Bill Mitchell, Lawless Lawfulness, North Carolina, Lyndon Johnson, The American Vigilante Tradition, Sam Ealy Johnson, American Revolution, Samuel Adams, New Jersey, Nat Turner, Blanco County Browse Sample Pages:
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bloody scout, antivigilante coalition, legal illuminati, instant vigilantism, new vigilantism, vigilante tradition, black ghetto riots, vigilante movements, violent region, frontier vigilantism, frontier disorder, riot ideology, vigilante leaders, extralegal justice, white capping, very good fight, riot activity, vigilante activity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Strain of Violence, South Carolina, San Francisco, Civil War, Back Country, New York, The Violent Region of Central Texas, John Wesley Hardin, United States, New Mexico, World War, Living Together Violently, Comanche County, New Orleans, Bill Mitchell, Lawless Lawfulness, North Carolina, Lyndon Johnson, The American Vigilante Tradition, Sam Ealy Johnson, American Revolution, Samuel Adams, New Jersey, Nat Turner, Blanco County Browse Sample Pages:
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- Vigilantism: Political History of Private Power in America (Contributions in Criminology & Penology) by William C. Culberson on 4 pages
- Vigilantism: Political History of Private Power in America (Contributions in Criminology and Penology) by William C. Culberson on 4 pages
- Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South by W. Fitzhugh Brundage in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 107
- Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society by Richard Maxwell Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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