| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Overviews; 1. Intimate Violence, Now and Then; 2. Personal Violence in a ""Peaceable Kingdom"" Pennsylvania, 1682-1801; 3. Governing the Passions The Eighteenth-Century Quest for Domestic Harmony in Philadelphia's Middle-Class Households; Husbands, Wives, and Lovers; 4. Spousal Murder in Northern New England, 1776-1865; 5. ""My Mind Is to Drown You and Leave You Behind"" ""Omie Wise," Intimate Violence, and Masculinity |
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6. ""He Murdered Her Because He Loved Her"" Passion, Masculinity, and Intimate Homicide in Antebellum America7. ""A New Home"" for Whom? Caroline Kirkland Exposes Domestic Abuse on the Michigan Frontier; 8. Keeping the Peace Domestic Assault and Private Prosecution in Antebellum Baltimore; Parents and Children; 9. ""Unnatural Mothers" Infanticide, Motherhood, and Class in the Mid-Atlantic, 1730-1830; 10. Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812; 11. Decorous Violence Manners, Class, and Abuse in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy |
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Masters, Servants, and Slaves12. "As If There Was Not Master or Woman in the Land" Gender, Dependency, and Household Violence in Virginia, 1646-1720; 13. Theater of Terror Domestic Violence in Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaica, 1750-1786; 14. "I Have Got the Gun and Will Do As I Please with Her" African-Americans and Violence in Maryland, 1782-1830; 15. Within the Slave Cabin Violence in Mississippi Slave Families; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This compelling collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence under strict historical scrutiny, often producing surprising results |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Family violence -- United States -- History
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- General.
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Family violence
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kennedy, Michael V
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| ISBN |
9781135250164 |
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1135250162 |
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