Reload : Rethinking Violence in American Life

Christopher B. Strain

ISBN 10: 0826517420 / ISBN 13: 9780826517425

Published by Univ Of Chicago Press Behalf Of Vanderbilt Univ. P Feb 2011, 2011

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Neuware - A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 When 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 roles in recent centuries, to the hysteria surrounding video and role-playing games and the more recent disturbing phenomenon of school shootings. Strain shapes nothing less than a profound meditation on American violence and a 'primer' on understanding what can often appear to be a profoundly dangerous nation. In addition to serving as a comprehensive overview of the state of violence in America, Reload also suggests ways of combating the trends that lead to tragedy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reload : Rethinking Violence in American Life
• Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Press Behalf Of Vanderbilt Univ. P Feb 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826517420
• ISBN 13: 9780826517425
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 140H x 11D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 237 grams

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Synopsis

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

When 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 roles in recent centuries, to the hysteria surrounding video and role-playing games and the more recent disturbing phenomenon of school shootings. Strain shapes nothing less than a profound meditation on American violence and a "primer" on understanding what can often appear to be a profoundly dangerous nation.

In addition to serving as a comprehensive overview of the state of violence in America, Reload also suggests ways of combating the trends that lead to tragedy.

About the Author

Christopher Strain is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and is author of Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era and Burning Faith: Church Arson in the American South.