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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Hofstadter and Wallace agued a lot in the writing of that book and I think (in fact am sure) that the slippage was from Hofstadter.
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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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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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