History of Violence in America
A Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
Graham, Hugh Davis; Gurr, Ted Robert Publisher: New York Times Book, New York, USA
Year Published: 1970 First Published: 1969
Pages: 858pp
Resource Type: Book
A study of violence in the United States which seeks to determine how violence became part of America life.
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Table of Contents
Special Introduction
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I: A Historical Overview of Violence in Europe and America
1. Collective Violence in European Perspective
2. Historical Patterns of Violence in America
Appendix - A 150-year study of political violence in the United States
Part II: Immigrant Societies and the Frontier Tradition
3. A Comparative Study of Fragment Cultures
4. The Frontier Tradition: An Invitation to Violence
5. The American Vigilante Tradition
Appendix - American vigilante movements
6. Violence in American Literature and Folk Lore
Part III: The History of Working-Class Protest and Violence
7. On the Origins and Resolution of English Working-Class Protest
8. American Labour Violence: Its Causes, Character, and Outcome
Part IV: Patterns and Sources of Racial Aggression
9. Black Violence in the 20th Century: A Study in Rhetoric and Retaliation
10. Patterns of Collective Racial Violence
11. The Dynamics of Black and White Violence
Part V: Perspectives on Crime in the United States
12. Urbanization and Criminal Violence in the 19th Century: Massachusetts as a Test Case
13. A Contemporary History of American Crime
14. Southern Violence
Part VI: International Conflict and Internal Strife
15. Domestic Violence and America's Wars: A Historical Interpretation
16. International War and Domestic Turmoil: Some Contemporary Evidence
Part VII: Comparative Patterns of Strife and Violence
17. A comparative Study of Civil Strife
18. Social Change and Political Violence: Cross-National Patterns
Part VIII: Processes of Rebellion
19. The J-Curve of Rising and Declining Satisfactions as a Cause of Some Great Revolutions and a Contained Rebellion
20. Batista and Betancourt: Alternative Responses to Violence
Part IX: Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
21. Overcrowding and Human Aggression
22. Defensive Cultural Adaptation
Conclusion
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