Violence in America
Subtitle: historical & comparative perspectives
By: Hugh Davis Graham, Ted Robert Gurr, editors ; pref. by Milton S. Eisenhower.
Contributors: Gurr, Ted Robert, 1936- joint author.; United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Task Force on Historical and Comparative Perspectives.; United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Beverly Hills, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Violence -- United States.
Other titles: Graham report on violence in America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Commonly known as the Graham report.
Report of the Task Force on Historical and Comparative Perspectives to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
Table of contents: title: Historical patterns of American violence / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Political protest and rebellion in the 1960's: The United States in world perspective / Ted Robert Gurr -- Collective violence in European perspective / Charles Tilly -- A comparative study of Fragment cultures / Louis Hartz -- Violence in American literature and folklore / Kenneth Lynn - The American vigilante tradition / Richard Maxwell Brown -- American Labor Violence: Its causes, character, and outcome / Philip Taft and Philip Ross -- Collective violence in reconstruction south / G. David Garson and Gail O'Brian -- Collective racial violence: A contemporary history / Morris Janowitz -- American Indian resistance and protest / Jeanne Guillemin -- Domestic violence and America's wars: an historical interpretation / Robin Brooks -- Terrorism and revolution in America / J. Bowyer Bell and Ted Rogert Gurr.