Amy Louise Wood's The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 19: PDF

By Amy Louise Wood

ISBN-10: 0807835226

ISBN-13: 9780807835227

ISBN-10: 0807872164

ISBN-13: 9780807872161

a lot of the violence that has been linked to the U.S. has had specific salience for the South, from its excessive murder charges, or its bloody background of racial clash, to southerners' well known attachment to weapons and standard aid for capital punishment. With over ninety five entries, this quantity of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the main major types and plenty of of the main harrowing incidences of violence that experience plagued southern society over the last three hundred years.

Following a close evaluation through editor Amy wooden, the quantity explores a variety of themes, reminiscent of violence opposed to and between American Indians, hard work violence, arson, violence and reminiscence, suicide, and anti-abortion violence. Taken jointly, those entries develop our knowing of what has pushed southerners of assorted sessions and numerous ethnicities to dedicate acts of violence, whereas addressing the ways that southerners have conceptualized that violence, answered to it, or resisted it. This quantity enriches our figuring out of the tradition of violence and its impression on rules approximately legislations and crime, approximately historic culture and social switch, and approximately race and gender--not purely within the South yet within the country as a whole.

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