Jonathan Obert

The Six-Shooter State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Public and private forms of violence have co-evolved rather than competed in America's political development since the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781108454148
• ISBN-10: 1108454143
• Artikelnr.: 52418886

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Obert is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, where he has taught since 2014. He has published articles on violence, organizational change, and state formation in the US at Law & Social Inquiry, Perspectives on Politics, Studies in American Political Development, and the Journal of Policy History, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Jurisdictional decoupling as institutional change
3. Bandits, elites, and vigilantes in antebellum Illinois
4. Pinkertons and police in antebellum Chicago
5. Racist vigilantism as reform in reconstruction Louisiana
6. The violent careers of American gunfighters
7. Conclusion
Index.