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No Duty to Retreat : Violence and Values in American History and Society by Richard Maxwell Brown - livre d'occasionISBN: 9780195045109
In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatenin… Plus…
No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society - edition reliée, livre de poche
1992
ISBN: 9780195045109
Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 278 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-02-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.09 kg, Medizin, Kategorien, Bücher, Recht, Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologisc… Plus…
No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society - edition reliée, livre de poche
1992, ISBN: 9780195045109
Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 278 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-02-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.09 kg, Medizin, Kategorien, Bücher, Recht, Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologisc… Plus…
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No Duty to Retreat offers an engrossing account of how this idea of self-defense emerged, focusing in particular on the gunfights of the frontier and their impact on our legal traditions. The right to stand one's ground, Brown tells us, appeared relatively recently. Under English common law, the threatened party had a legal duty to retreat "to the wall" before fighting back. But from the nineteenth century on, such authorities as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes rejected this doctrine as unsuited to both the American mind and the age of firearms. Brown sketches the influence of frontier violence, demonstrating the tremendous impact of the famous gunmen and the prevalence of what he calls "grassroots gunfighters"--unsung men who resorted to their guns at a moment's notice. These duels, ambushes, and firefights, he writes, were more than personal vendettas: They were part of a "Western Civil War of Incorporation," pitting gunmen--usually Republicans and Unionists, who sided with the expanding banks, railroads, and businesses--against cowboys and independent farmers, who were often Democrats sympathizing with the Confederacy. Brown examines the gunfight near the O.K. Corral in this light, showing how it was a climax of tensions between Tombstone's Republican businessmen (represented by Wyatt Earp) and the county's cowboys (led by the Clantons and McLaurys). He also looks at such lesser-known battles as the Mussel Slough war, in which resisting farmers, imbued with the no-retreat ethic, fought for their independent lifestyle against encroaching rail barons. This Civil War of Incorporation fed the violence of the West and reinforced the legal doctrine of "no duty to retreat."
The frontier days are long past, but Brown shows how the ethic of no retreat continues to shape everything from our entertainment to our foreign policy (including President Bush's "line drawn in the sand") to our politics to cases like that of Bernhard Goetz. Though challenged as never before by the values of peace and social activism, it remains a central theme in American thought and character.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780195045109
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0195045106
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Date de parution: 1992
Editeur: Oxford University Press
280 Pages
Poids: 0,445 kg
Langue: eng/Englisch
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ISBN/EAN: 0195045106
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0-19-504510-6, 978-0-19-504510-9
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Auteur du livre: max richard, brown, richard maxwell, richard holmes, bill holmes, wyatt earp, wall richard, oliver richard, richard west, bernhard, oliver wendell holmes, richard law
Titre du livre: duty retreat violence values american history society
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