
Documenting American Violence
A Sourcebook
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 26. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-19-515004-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through contemporary voices, Documenting American Violence tracks the changes in the nature of American violence. This anthology looks at violence as an integral part of American history and includes excerpts from a wide range of primary sources, including court records. newspaper accounts, and political documents. Topics include violence and the conquest of America, Revolutionary violence, slavery, the Civil War, lynching, the West, industrial violence, civil rights, domestic violence, and crime as social drama. Taken together, they open a new window on American history, covering the colonial period, the American Revolution, the Age of Jackson, the Civil War, the industrial revolution, World War II, the Sixties, and contemporary America.
Reviews / Votes
a wonderful classroom resource. * Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, American Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
American violence, sociology, criminology
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-515004-9 (9780195150049)
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Persons
Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Prof. of History at San Francisco State University and the author of The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America.
Michael Bellesiles is the editor of Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History.
Michael Bellesiles is the editor of Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History.
Author
Pasker Chair of American HistoryPasker Chair of American History, San Francisco State University
Associate Professor of HistoryAssociate Professor of History, Emory University