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Violence and crime in nineteenth-century England : the shadow of our refinement /
This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge historica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in modern British history ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter Introduction
- Casting shadows
- chapter 1 "Speakable" violence
- Mentality and violence, narrative and counternarrative
- chapter 2 A useful savagery
- Violence, civilization and middle-class identity
- chapter 3 "Vigorous passions and decided actions"
- Custom and the cultural contexts of violence
- chapter 4 "The brave old English custom"
- Dispute, recreation and ritual violence among working-class men
- chapter 5 "The wrongdoing of the poor man is as open as day"
- Built space, imagined space, knowledge and violence
- chapter 6 "Heave half a brick at a stranger"
- Strategies of violence
- chapter 7 Conclusion.