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Stand your ground : a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense / Caroline E. Light.

By: Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]Description: xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Stand your groundDDC classification:
  • 345.73/04 23
LOC classification:
  • KF9246 .L54 2017
Contents:
"That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture -- Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction and the duty to retreat -- "Mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands -- "Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching -- "An American tradition" : the black paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection -- "The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen -- Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture -- Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction and the duty to retreat -- "Mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands -- "Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching -- "An American tradition" : the black paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection -- "The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen -- Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground.

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