Six-Shooter State

Six-Shooter State

Public and Private Violence in American Politics

Obert, Jonathan (Amherst College, Massachusetts)

Cambridge University Press

09/2018

250

Mole

Inglês

9781108454148

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Public and private forms of violence have co-evolved rather than competed in America's political development since the nineteenth century.
1. Introduction; 2. Jurisdictional decoupling as institutional change; 3. Bandits, elites, and vigilantes in antebellum Illinois; 4. Pinkertons and police in antebellum Chicago; 5. Racist vigilantism as reform in reconstruction Louisiana; 6. The violent careers of American gunfighters; 7. Conclusion; Index.
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