Scott Gac (Connecticut Trinity College)

Born in Blood

Violence and the Making of America

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Produktbeschreibung

This important and timely book explains the political culture of violence that has shaped the United States from its inception. It will engage students, scholars and general readers interested in American history, African American history, and American studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511886
• ISBN-10: 131651188X
• Artikelnr.: 68537563

Autorenporträt

Scott Gac is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Trinity College and the author of Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A system of violence: liberal society in the United States
Part I. Early Manifestations: 1. A revolution restrained
2. Life in the army of the continent
3. The code of American violence
Part II. Evolutions: 4. The 1850s: a people's government and the politics of belligerence
5. The United States greets John Brown
6. 1860: the undisputed election that sparked dispute
7. Emancipation's fury
Part III. Modern Traditions: 8. To 1877: American capitalism and the geography of violence
9. Layering law and resistance in the Great Strikes
10. Words and ropes: the postwar battles over racial order
Epilogue.