By any standard, the United States is the most violent nation in
the industrialized world. To find comparable levels of
interpersonal violence, one must look to nations in the midst of
civil war.
Most observers of modern American violence do not consider the
historical roots of current levels of violence, preferring to
criticize American liberalism, permissive child-rearing practices,
and excessive greed and individualism as the sources of the
problem.
This collection of original essays examines the role of violence
in America's past, exploring its history and development, from
slave patrols in the Colonial South to gun ownership in the
twentieth century.
Contributors examine both individual acts, such as domestic
violence, murder, dueling, frontier vigilantism, and rape, and
group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, rifle
clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive
medical experiments on women's bodies.
Contributors include Jeff Adler, Bruce Baird, Robert Dykstra,
Lee Chambers-Schiller, Philip J. Cook, Laura Edwards, Uche
Egemonye, Nicole Etcheson, Evan Haefeli, Sally Hadden, Paula
Hinton, Arthur L. Kellermann, Laura McCall, Kate Nickerson, Mary
Odem, Craig Pascoe, John C. Pettegrew, Junius P. Rodriguez, and
Andrea Tone, Christopher Waldrep.
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