Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West

Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West
ISBN-10
0295985054
ISBN-13
9780295985053
Category
History
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Author
David Peterson Del Mar

Description

This book examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and continuing into the mid-twentieth centuries. Rather than riots or lynchings, it is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force--a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the “better man.” Del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence.

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