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From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture
David Brion Davis Sterling Professor of History Yale University
其他書名
Studies in American Culture
出版Oxford University Press, USA, 1986-11-20
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralHistory / HistoriographyHistory / United States / GeneralPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural PolicySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / CulturalSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Minority StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CultureSocial Science / Violence in SocietySocial Science / Slavery
ISBN01980211279780198021124
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AmywI3_CJKsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis's first book of collected essays, brings together selections reflecting his wide-ranging interests in colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences, and American literature. The essays are interconnected by Davis's central concern with violence, irrationality, and the definition of moral limits during a period when Americans believed they were breaking free from historical constraints and acquiring new powers of self-perfection. Topics range from a socially revealing murder trial in 1843 to debates over capital punishment, movements of counter-subverison, the iconography of race, the cowboy as an American hero, the portrayal of violence in American literature, the historiography of slavery, and the British and American antislavery movements.