Scott Gac

Born in Blood (eBook, ePUB)

Violence and the Making of America

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009063142
• Artikelnr.: 70909787

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.