Daniels / Kennedy Over the Threshold

Intimate Violence in Early America
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-25023-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This compelling collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence under strict historical scrutiny, often producing surprising results.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daniels, Christine

Kennedy, Michael V.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

OVERVIEWS

1. Christine Daniels--Intimate Violence, Now and Then
2. G. S. Rowe and Jack D. Marietta--Personal Violence in a "Peaceable Kingdom": Pennsylvania, 1682-1801
3. Jacquelyn C. Miller--Governing the Passions: The Eighteenth-Century Quest for Domestic Harmony in Philadelphia's Middle-Class Households

HUSBANDS, WIVES, AND LOVERS

4. Randolph A. Roth--Spousal Murder in Northern New England, 1776-1865
5. Edward E. Baptist--"My Mind is to Drown You and Leave You Behind": 'Omie Wise', Intimate Violence, and Masculinity
6. Ed Hatton--"He Murdered Her Because He Loved Her": Passion, Masculinity and Intimate Homicide in Antebellum America
7. Jenifer Banks--A New Home for Whom? Caroline Kirkland and Domestic Abuse on the Michigan Frontier
8. Stephanie Cole--Keeping the Peace: Domestic Assault and Private Prosecution in Antebellum Baltimore

PARENTS AND CHILDREN

9. Merril D. Smith--"Unnatural Mothers": Infanticide, Motherhood, and Class in the Mid-Atlantic, 1730-1830
10. James D. Rice--Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812
11. Jeffrey H. Richards--Decorous Violence: Manners, Class, and Abuse in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy

MASTERS, SERVANTS, AND SLAVES

12. Terri L. Snyder--"As If There Were Not Master or Woman in the Land": Gender, Dependency, and Household Violence in Virginia, 1646-1720
13. Trevor Burnard--A Theater of Terror: Domestic Violence in Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaica, 1750-1786
14. T. Stephen Whitman--"I Have Got the Gun and Will Do As I Please with Her": African-Americans and Violence in Maryland, 1782-1830
15. Christopher Morris--Within the Slave Cabin: Violence in Mississippi Slave Families

Contributors' Biographies
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy are both Assistant Professors of History at Michigan State University. Professor Daniels has published several articles on labor in early America. Professor Kennedy is co-editor, with William G. Shade, of The World Turned Upside-Down: Essays on the State of Colonial North-American Studies.