Beaten Down - A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: David Peterson (NA) Del Mar, David Peterson Del Mar
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2005
• EAN: 9780295985053
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98505-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Beaten Down
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)