Lethal imagination : violence and brutality in American history /
Bellesiles, Michael A.
New York : New York University Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Michael A. Bellesiles -- Kieft's War and the cultures of violence in colonial America / Evan Haefeli -- "Shee would bump his mouldy britch": authority, masculinity, and the harried husbands of New Haven Colony, 1638-1670 / Ann M. Little -- Colonial and Revolutionary era slave patrols of Virginia / Sally E. Hadden -- The social origins of dueling in Virginia / Bruce C. Baird -- Women of domestic violence in nineteenth-century North Carolina / Laura F. Edwards -- Complicity and deceit: Lewis Cheney's plot and its bloody consequences / Junius P. Rodriguez -- Good men and notorious rogues: vigilantism in Massac County, Illinois, 1846-1850 / Nicole Etcheson -- Armed and "more or less dangerous": women and violence in American frontier literature, 1820-1860 / Laura McCall -- Seduced, betrayed, and revenged: the murder trial of Mary Harris / Lee Chambers-Schiller -- To live and die in Dodge City: body counts, law and order, and the case of Kansas v. Gill / Robert R. Dykstra -- Word and deed: the language of lynching, 1820-1953 / Christopher Waldrep -- "The deftness of her sex": innocence, guilt, and gender in the trial of Lizzie Borden / Catherine Ross Nickerson -- Treat her like a lady: judicial paternalism and the justification for assaults against Black women, 1865-1910 / Uche Egemonye -- "The Negro would be more than an angel to withstand such treatment": African-American homicide in Chicago, 1875-1910 / Jeffrey S. Adler -- Homosociality and the legal sanction of male heterosexual aggression in the early twentieth century / John C. Pettegrew -- "The unspeakable Mrs. Gunness": the deviant woman in early-twentieth-century America / Paula K. Hinton -- Cultural representations and social contexts of rape in the early twentieth century / Mary E. Odem --Violence by design: contraceptive technology and the invasion of the female body / Andrea Tone -- The Monroe Rifle Club: finding justice in an "ungodly and social jungle called Dixie" / Craig S. Pascoe -- Armed and dangerous: guns in American homes / Arthur L. Kellermann and Philip J. Cook.
Violence