Verfasst von:	Light, Caroline E. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Stand your ground
Titelzusatz:	a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense
Verf.angabe:	Caroline E. Light
Verlagsort:	Boston
Verlag:	Beacon Press
E-Jahr:	2017
Jahr:	[2017]
Umfang:	xiii, 225 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Format:	24 cm
ISBN:	978-0-8070-6466-5
Abstract:	"That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture -- Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction and the duty to retreat -- "Mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands -- "Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching -- "An American tradition" : the black paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection -- "The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen -- Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Selbstverteidigung    / (s)Schusswaffe    / (s)Waffenrecht    / (s)Sexismus    / (s)Rassismus    / (z)Geschichte 1800-2015
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Light, Caroline E., author: Stand your ground. - Boston : Beacon Press, 2017 |(DLC)2016023420
Sach-SW:	African Americans
	Firearms
	Self-defense (Law)
K10plus-PPN:	860114252