Violence in America : historical and comparative perspectives ; a report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence / by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr
Report of the Task Force on Historical and Comparative Perspectives.
Contents:
Vol. 1. pt. 1. A historical overview of violence in Europe and America. Collective violence in European perspective / Charles Tilly. Historical patterns of violence in America / Richard Maxwell Brown. A 150-year study of political violence in the United States / Sheldon G. Levy -- pt. 2. Immigrant societies and the frontier tradition. A comparative study of fragment cultures / Louis Hartz. The frontier tradition: an invitation to violence / Joe B. Frantz. The American vigilante tradition / Richard Maxwell Brown. Appendix: American vigilante movements. Violence in American literature and folk lore / Kenneth Lynn -- pt. 3. History of working-class protest and violence. On the origins and resolution of English working-class protest / Ben C. Roberts. American labor violence: its causes, character, and outcome / Philip Taft & Philip Ross
Vol. 2. pt. 4. Patterns and sources of racial aggression. Black violence in the 20th century: a study in rhetoric and retaliation / August Meier & Elliott Rudwick. Patterns of collective racial violence / Morris Janowitz. Dynamics of black and white violence / James P. Comer -- pt. 5. Perspectives on crime in the United States. Urbanization and criminal violence in the 19th century: Massachusetts as a test case / Roger Lane. Contemporary history of American crime / Fred P. Graham. Southern violence / Sheldon Hackney -- pt. 6. International conflict and internal strife. Domestic violence and America's wars: a historical interpretation / Robin Brooks. International war and domestic turmoil: some contemporary evidence / Raymond Tanter -- pt. 7. Comparative patterns of strife and violence. Comparative study of civil strife / Ted Robert Gurr. Appendix 1: Procedures used in collecting and summarizing civil strife data. Appendix 2: Procedures used in selecting and grouping countries for cross-national comparison. Social change and political violence: cross-national patterns / Ivo K. Feierabend, Rosalind L. Feierabend & Betty A. Nesvold -- pt. 8. Processes of rebellion. The J-curve of rising and declining satisfactions as a cause of some great revolutions and a contained rebellion / James C. Davies. Batista and Betancourt: alternative responses to violence / Edward W. Gude -- pt. 9. Ecological and anthropolitical perspectives. Overcrowding and human aggression / George M. Castairs. Defensive cultural adaptation / Bernard J. Siegel -- Conclusion / Hugh David Graham & Ted Robert Gurr
