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S'està carregant… American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil Warde David Grimsted
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Though sometimes bogging down in anecdotal detail, this account of public group violence in Antebellum America comes together in Grimsted's account of "Bleeding" Kansas. This is where the author examines how the Northern sense of rough (but mostly constrained) electoral behavior collided with the Southern tradition of eliminationist violence against those who would question the legitimacy of slavery. In examining how these two traditions came to be embedded in their respective regions Grimsted also helps to show the process by which civil war came. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions fromauthorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant butoften effective riot suppression. Hundreds died in riots in both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by authorities, while in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were caused by the mobs themselves.These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that inthese two distinct reactions to mob violence, we can see major origins of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that ultimately led to the Civil War. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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