Beaten Down : A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West

University of Washington Press

Beaten DownA History of Interpersonal Violence in the West\nAuthor(s): David Peterson del Mar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295985053, 978-0295985053\nSynopsis\nSelected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003\n\nThe word violence conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical forcea husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the better man. David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence, this white noise that has always been with us, humming quietly between more explosive acts of violence.\n\nBroad in its chronological and cultural sweep, Beaten Down examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native Amer.