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Strain of Violence - Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (Hardcover)
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Strain of Violence - Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (Hardcover)
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From Colonial times, Americans have been known as a rough, violent
people. The generalization is perhaps unjust, for it is the special
nature of our violence which sets us apart - whereas the 19th
century English might turn out for a state hanging as for a
holiday, Americans of the same period would more likely stage the
necktie party themselves. Brown, Professor of History at William
and Mary, details vast numbers of incidents of extra-legal violence
- lynchings, riots, feuds, militant groups - which mar and enliven
our past. Separate essays cover the Revolutionary period, the
development of vigilante traditions in South Carolina, San
Francisco, and central Texas, the early-tolerant attitude of the
legal profession toward vigilantism, and the evolution of American
racial violence. There's some fascinating marginalia - Lynchburg,
S.C., was named for Colonel Charles Lynch, whose zeal for order
also provided the terms "lynch law" and "lynching." Discover the
true fate of Print Olive, Texas feuder, daredevil and' desperado.
The essays seem designed to be read individually; taken together,
they fail to develop and are often repetitious. Now and again,
Brown succumbs to the inherent sensationalism of his subject - the
essay on central Texas, for example, sometimes descends to a sort
of shoot-em-up prose. (Kirkus Reviews)
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