9780719078859; 9780719078859; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism; 2. Women preachers' place in a divided Methodism; 3. The heyday of female itinerancy; 4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers, and local preachers; 5. Women as Revivalists; 6. Women in missions at home and abroad; 7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People, andthe revival of female itinerancy; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book deals with the inherent violence of?race relations? in two important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the twentieth century. *Cultures of violence* does not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the?lynch culture? of the American South to the?bureaucratic culture of violence? in South Africa. By contrasting mobs of rope-wielding white Southerners to the gun-toting policemen and administrators who formally defended white supremacy in South Africa, *Cultures of violence* employs racial killing as an optic for examining t
