03663nam 2200757 450 991045400260332120200520144314.01-280-52345-X97866105234500-19-802112-7(CKB)1000000000577941(EBL)271515(OCoLC)476007467(SSID)ssj0000296946(PQKBManifestationID)12106323(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296946(PQKBWorkID)10346998(PQKB)10709878(SSID)ssj0000360327(PQKBManifestationID)12117039(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000360327(PQKBWorkID)10325796(PQKB)11106516(MiAaPQ)EBC271515(Au-PeEL)EBL271515(CaPaEBR)ebr11303217(CaONFJC)MIL52345(EXLCZ)99100000000057794120151030h19861986 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom homicide to slavery studies in American culture /David Brion DavisNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1986.©19861 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-504089-9 0-19-505418-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.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 Regicide10. 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 Early Antislavery Radicalism; 17. The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought; 18. James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement19. American Slavery and the American RevolutionThis 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.SlaveryUnited StatesViolenceUnited StatesHistorySlaveryUnited StatesHistoriographyNational characteristics, AmericanUnited StatesRace relationsWest (U.S.)CivilizationElectronic books.SlaveryViolenceHistory.SlaveryHistoriography.National characteristics, American.305.8/96073/073Davis David Brion127695MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454002603321From homicide to slavery2232436UNINA