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02860aam a2200445 i 4500 001 33DF797A2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 180420t20182018enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018017124 020 $a 1108454143 020 $a 9781108454148 020 $a 1316515141 020 $a 9781316515143 035 $a (OCoLC)1030765958 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV6432 $b .O24 2018 082 00 $a 303.60973 $2 23 100 1 $a Obert, Jonathan, $e author. 245 14 $a The six-shooter state : $b public and private violence in American politics / $c Jonathan Obert. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xvii, 271 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction -- 2. Jurisdictional Decoupling as Institutional Change -- 3. Bandits, Elites, and Vigilantes in Antebellum Illinois -- 4. Pinkertons and Police in Antebellum Chicago -- 5. Racist Vigilantism as Reform in Reconstruction Louisiana -- 6. The Violent Careers of American Gunfighters -- 7. Conclusion. 520 $a "American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Violence $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Vigilantes $z United States. 650 0 $a Police $z United States. 650 0 $a Firearms ownership $z United States. 650 7 $a Firearms ownership. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00925642 650 7 $a Police. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01068398 650 7 $a Vigilantes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01166910 650 7 $a Violence $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01167237 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013740.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211015310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=33DF797A2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search