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The Six-Shooter State - Public and Private Violence in American Politics (Hardcover)
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The Six-Shooter State - Public and Private Violence in American Politics (Hardcover)
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American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans
support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up
of police and military forces in order to provide public security.
At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private
right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book
diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive
institutional history, in which private forms of violence -
vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in
concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence
such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public
and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of
a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had
been indistinguishable from private effort, by the
nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the
Market Revolution.
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