Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A total reworking of this 1968 bestseller, with nine entirely new chapters, taking into account the radical changes in American society and American violence over the last decade. Of interest to anyone concerned with the interpretation of America′s turbulent past and the assessment of its future.
Table of Contents
Historical patterns of American violence / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Political protest and rebellion in the 1960's: The United States in world perspective / Ted Robert Gurr -- Collective violence in European perspective / Charles Tilly -- A comparative study of Fragment cultures / Louis Hartz -- Violence in American literature and folklore / Kenneth Lynn - The American vigilante tradition / Richard Maxwell Brown -- American Labor Violence: Its causes, character, and outcome / Philip Taft and Philip Ross -- Collective violence in reconstruction south / G. David Garson and Gail O'Brian -- Collective racial violence: A contemporary history / Morris Janowitz -- American Indian resistance and protest / Jeanne Guillemin -- Domestic violence and America's wars: an historical interpretation / Robin Brooks -- Terrorism and revolution in America / J. Bowyer Bell and Ted Rogert Gurr.