David Peterson del Mar

Beaten Down

A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and continuing into the mid-twentieth century. This title concludes that we cannot comprehend the causes and moral consequences of a violent act without considering larger social relations of power.

Produktdetails

• Beaten Down
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780295985053
• ISBN-10: 0295985054
• Artikelnr.: 22014509

Autorenporträt

David Peterson del Mar is adjunct assistant professor of history at Portland State University and Oregon State University. He is the author of What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence against Wives.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A White Fist on Their Noses: Colonization and Violence
To Take Your Own Part: Violence among the Settlers
I Was Not There to Fight: The Decline and Persistence of Violence in the
Late Nineteenth Century
Plucky Women and Crazed Indians: Representing Violence and Marginality in
Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver
To Do Just as He Pleased: Violence in the 1920s
Big as God Almighty and Undemanding as Dew: Violence and People of African
and Japanese Descent
Epilogue: Discovering Violence
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index