From homicide to slavery : studies in American culture / / David Brion Davis
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| Autore: |
Davis David Brion
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| Titolo: |
From homicide to slavery : studies in American culture / / David Brion Davis
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986 |
| ©1986 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8/96073/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - United States |
| Violence - United States - History | |
| Slavery - United States - Historiography | |
| National characteristics, American | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| West (U.S.) Civilization | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From homicide to slavery |
| ISBN: | 1-280-52345-X |
| 9786610523450 | |
| 0-19-802112-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782551603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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