Reload: Rethinking Violence in American Life
Description
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011When incidents of extreme violence flare in America, all too often they are framed as isolated aberrations. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Christopher Strain argues in his new book, Reload: Rethinking Violence in American Life. The unpleasant fact, as he reveals in this highly readable study, is that American violence is inextricably woven into the fabric of our national heritage and experience.In Reload, Strain traces our modern-day conception of violence from the struggle to survive on the American frontier, through evolving gender r...
ISBN(s)
0826517420, 9780826517425
