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New worlds of violence cultures and conquests in the early American Southeast / by Jennings, Matthew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cultures of violence -- Violence in the Mississippian world -- Spanish and Mississippian violence -- The fight for Florida -- Violence after the entrada -- Creating English conquest -- Violence and the founding of English Carolina -- Violence in the era of the Yamasee War -- American nations, American violence.…”
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Slave against slave : plantation violence in the old South / by Forret, Jeff, 1972-

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Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720 / by Hurl-Eamon, Jennine

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The Afterlives of the Terror : Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France / by Steinberg, Ronen, 1970-

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Religion and violence in early American Methodism taking the kingdom by force / by Williams, Jeffrey, 1973-

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Romances of the republic women, the family, and violence in the literature of the early American nation / by Samuels, Shirley

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Domestic affairs intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / by Straub, Kristina, 1951-

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Irish peasants violence & political unrest, 1780-1914 /

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A natural history of revolution violence and nature in the French revolutionary imagination, 1789-1794 / by Miller, Mary Ashburn, 1979-

Subjects: “…Violence Political aspects France History 18th century.…”
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Riotous assemblies popular protest in Hanoverian England / by Randall, Adrian

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The four deaths of Acorn Whistler telling stories in colonial America / by Piker, Joshua Aaron

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The Zong a massacre, the law and the end of slavery / by Walvin, James

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This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / by Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll

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The verdict of battle the law of victory and the making of modern war / by Whitman, James Q., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Why battles matter -- Accepting the wager of battle -- Laying just claim to the profits of war -- The monarchical monopolization of military violence -- Were there really rules? -- The death of pitched battle.…”
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No Useless Mouth : Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution / by Herrmann, Rachel B.

Table of Contents: “…Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America -- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North -- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South -- Power in flux. …”
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Building the devil's empire French colonial New Orleans / by Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"A veritable Babylon" : enlightenment and disorder -- La ville sauvage : nature and urban planning -- A backwater entrepôt -- La renommée : from colonial experiment to Creole society -- Tensions of power : law, discipline, and violence -- Conclusion : revolt and rogue colonialism.…”
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Peace came in the form of a woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands / by Barr, Juliana

Table of Contents: “…Diplomatic ritual in the "land of the Tejas" -- Political kinship through settlement and marriage -- Civil alliance and "civility" in mission-presidio complexes -- Negotiating fear with violence : Apaches and Spaniards at midcentury -- Contests and alliances of norteño manhood : the road to truce and treaty -- Womanly "captivation" : political economies of hostage taking and hospitality.…”
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Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression / by DiPlacidi, Jenny

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : disrupting the critical genealogy of the Gothic -- 'Unimaginable sensations' : father- daughter incest and the economics of exchange -- 'My more than sister' : re- examining paradigms of sibling incest -- Uncles and nieces : thefts, violence and sexual threats -- More than just kissing : cousins and the changing status of family -- Queer mothers : female sexual agency and male victims -- Coda : incest and beyond.…”
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Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / by Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The slave trade from the Biafran interior : violence, serial displacement, and the rudiments of Igbo society -- The slave ship and the beginnings of Igbo society in the African diaspora -- White power and the context of slave seasoning in eighteenth-century Jamaica -- Routines of disaster and revolution -- Social movement and imagining freedom in the British capital -- Migration and the impossible demands of leaving London -- From slaves to free subjects in British North America -- Black society and the limits of British freedom -- The effects of exodus : Afro-maritime society in motion -- Arriving in Sierra Leone : catastrophe and its aftermaths -- Conclusion: Migration and black society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.…”
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Cosmopolitan patriots Americans in Paris in the age of revolution / by Ziesche, Philipp

Table of Contents: “…Exporting American revolutions: Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Jefferson, and the debate about the French constitution, 1789 -- "Was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?" Political violence and the global stakes of the French Revolution, 1790-1792 -- Cosmopolitan sensibilities and national regeneration : the work of Joel Barlow, 1792-1794 -- "Strange, that Monroe should warn us against Jacobins!" …”
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