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UNINA9910782551603321 |
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Davis David Brion |
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From homicide to slavery : studies in American culture / / David Brion Davis |
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986 |
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©1986 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52345-X |
9786610523450 |
0-19-802112-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - United States |
Violence - United States - History |
Slavery - United States - Historiography |
National characteristics, American |
United States Race relations |
West (U.S.) Civilization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; I. VIOLENCE AND VIRILITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE; 1. Murder in New Hampshire; 2. The Movement To Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861; 3. Violence in American Literature; 4. Stress-Seeking and the Self-Made Man in American Literature, 1894-1914; II. THE REDEEMING WEST; 5. Ten-Gallon Hero; 6. The Deerslayer, A Democratic Knight of the Wilderness: Cooper, 1841; 7. Marlboro Country; 8. Secrets of the Mormons; III. PROBLEMS OF LOYALTY AND IDENTITY; 9. Patricide and Regicide |
10. Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature11. Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America; 12. The American Family and Boundaries in Historical Perspective; IV. STUDIES IN SLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY; 13. Slavery, and the Post-World War II Historians; 14. Of Human Bondage; 15. Out of the Shadows; 16. New Sidelights on |
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Early Antislavery Radicalism; 17. The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought; 18. James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement |
19. American Slavery and the American Revolution |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection of the author's selected essays reflect his wide-ranging interests in American colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences and American literature. Amongst his topics are capital punishment, the American anti-slavery movement and the cowboy as American hero. |
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