UID:
edoccha_9958063144402883
Format:
1 online resource (393 p.)
Edition:
New Edition
ISBN:
0-19-771124-3
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0-19-530397-0
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9786610428106
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1-280-42810-4
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1-280-47037-2
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1-4237-8513-4
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0-19-535366-8
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1-60256-236-9
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This text provides a history of mob violence in antebellum America. It describes how the riots provoked by the issue of slavery produced very different reactions in the North and South.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1998.
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Contents; Chapter 1: 1835: Year of Violent Indecision; Chapter 2: Riots Hatching Resistance: Against Abolitionists and in Aid of Fugitive Slaves; Chapter 3: The Peculiar Institution of Southern Violence; Chapter 4: White Fears: Silencing Questions; Chapter 5: Black Fears: Mastering Dark Realities; Chapter 6: Times That Tried Men's Bodies: The Manly Sport of American Politics; Chapter 7: The Mobs of the Second Party System; Chapter 8: Trying to Forget Slavery: Nativism and New Riots; Chapter 9: Bleeding Majoritarianism: The Sectional Mob Systems Meet, Mingle, and Mangle
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Epilogue: Vintage ViolenceNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-517281-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-511707-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195117073.001.0001
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