Born in Blood

Violence and the Making of America

AvScott Gac

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons including gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. It offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Indians, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-18
Mått:160 x 240 x 27 mm
Vikt:760 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316511886

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Scott Gac is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Trinity College and the author of Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform.

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'Violence is central to American statecraft. In this remarkable book, Scott Gac unpicks individual, group, and institutional expressions of power, refracted through race, gender, and class. It is a chilling account of how and why violence became a 'national tradition' in US history.' Joanna Bourke, author of Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invades Our Lives

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. A system of violence: liberal society in the United States; Part I. Early Manifestations: 1. A revolution restrained; 2. Life in the army of the continent; 3. The code of American violence; Part II. Evolutions: 4. The 1850s: a people's government and the politics of belligerence; 5. The United States greets John Brown; 6. 1860: the undisputed election that sparked dispute; 7. Emancipation's fury; Part III. Modern Traditions: 8. To 1877: American capitalism and the geography of violence; 9. Layering law and resistance in the Great Strikes; 10. Words and ropes: the postwar battles over racial order; Epilogue.