I would definitely read a history of "violence" as a concept, mapping the slippage from human harm to property damage and unlawful acts. Hofstadter and Wallace's American Violence seems to consolidate this move, where strikes and bread riots sit next to nativist lynch mobs
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This a good one from the intro (and authored only by RH)pic.twitter.com/Tp4oEHY4Cl
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The 60s made liberal historians very sympathetic to Tory critiques of the American revolution -- you see that in Bailyn's book Thomas Hutchinson, which also laments the rude violence of revolutionary attacks on property.
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Have you interviewed Michael, Jeet?
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I thought about it but working an interview into a review essay would be awkward.
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