Born in Blood : Violence and the Making of America
- List Price: $29.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish date: 10/31/2023
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Introduction. A system of violence: liberal society in the United States; Part I. Early Manifestations: 1. A revolution restrained; 2. Life in the army of the continent; 3. The code of American violence; Part II. Evolutions: 4. The 1850s: a people's government and the politics of belligerence; 5. The United States greets John Brown; 6. 1860: the undisputed election that sparked dispute; 7. Emancipation's fury; Part III. Modern Traditions: 8. To 1877: American capitalism and the geography of violence; 9. Layering law and resistance in the Great Strikes; 10. Words and ropes: the postwar battles over racial order; Epilogue.
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