From Homicide to Slavery - Studies in American Culture (Paperback, New ed)

For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis's first book of collected essays, brings together selections reflecting his wide-ranging interests in colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences, and American literature. The essays are interconnected by Davis's central concern with violence, irrationality, and the definition of moral limits during a period when Americans believed they were breaking free from historical constraints and acquiring new powers of self-perfection. Topics range from a socially revealing murder trial in 1843 to debates over capital punishment, movements of counter-subversion, the iconography of race, the cowboy as an American hero, the portrayal of violence in American literature, the historiography of slavery, and the British and American antislavery movements.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1988
First published:	November 1988
Authors:	David Brion Davis (Sterling Professor of History)
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	316
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505418-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-19-505418-0
Barcode:	9780195054187

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