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Beaten Down - A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West (Hardcover)
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Beaten Down - A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West (Hardcover)
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Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The
word "violence" conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and
lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of
physical force-a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch
branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to
establish who was the "better man." David Peterson del Mar accounts
for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate
form of violence, this "white noise" that has always been with us,
humming quietly between more explosive acts of violence. Broad in
its chronological and cultural sweep, Beaten Down examines
interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia
beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and
continuing into the mid-twentieth century. It contrasts the
disparate ways of practicing and punishing interpersonal violence
on each side of the U.S.-Canadian border. Del Mar concludes that we
cannot comprehend the causes and moral consequences of a violent
act without considering larger social relations of power, whether
between colonizers and original inhabitants, between spouses,
between parents and children, or between and among different ethnic
groups. The author has drawn on a vast array of vivid sources,
including newspaper accounts, autobiographies, novels, oral
histories, historical and ethnographic publications, and hundreds
of detailed court cases to account for not only the relative
frequency of different forms of violence, but also the shifting
definitions and perceptions of what constitutes violence. This is a
thoughtful and probing account of how and why people have hit each
other and the manner in which opinion makers and ordinary citizens
have censured, defended, or celebrated such acts. Del Mar's
conclusions have important implications for an understanding of
violence and perceptions of violence in contemporary society.
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