Beaten Down : A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A White Fist on Their Noses: Colonization and Violence -- 2. To Take Your Own Part: Violence among the Settlers -- 3. I Was Not There to Fight: The Decline and Persistence of Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 4. Plucky Women and Crazed Italians: Representing Violence and Marginality in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver -- 5. To Do Just as He Pleased: Violence in the 1920s -- 6. Big as God Almighty and Undemanding as Dew: Violence and People of African and Japanese Descent -- Epilogue: Discovering Violence -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.

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