Beaten down : a history of interpersonal violence in the West

Beaten down : a history of interpersonal violence in the West / David Peterson del Mar.

The word "violence" conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force--a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who is the "bett...

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Main Author: Peterson del Mar, David, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Violence > West (U.S.) > History.
Violence > British Columbia > History.
Interpersonal conflict > West (U.S.) > History.
Interpersonal conflict > British Columbia > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Interpersonal conflict
Violence
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Gewalttätigkeit
Geweld.
Northwest, Pacific > History.
British Columbia
Pacific Northwest
West United States
USA > Weststaaten
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Italians: 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.

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