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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Jesse Lemisch wrote a piece about this for one of the first issues of the Radical History Review. http://pasleybrothers.com/mocourses/texts/Lemisch_Bailyn_Besieged.pdf …
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Nobody writes reviews like that anymore! Lemisch's hatred of that earlier generation was pure -- I was on a list-serve where he was complaining about Hofstadter till the end.
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