Strain of Violence

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Strain of Violence is written by Richard Maxwell Brown and published by New York : Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195019431 (ISBN 10) and 9780195019438 (ISBN 13).

These essays, written by leading historian of violence and Presidential Commission consultant Richard Maxwell Brown, consider the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order. Covering violent incidents from colonial American to the present, Brown presents illuminating discussions of violence and the American Revolution, black-white conflict from slave revolts to the black ghetto riots of the 1960s, the vigilante tradition, and two of America's most violent regions--Central Texas, whic.