HIST 261 - The History of Violence in America

FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years

A broad survey of the social origins, evolution, and major forms of extralegal, violent conflict in the United States, including individual and collective violence and conflict related to race, class, gender, politics, and ethnicity, especially emphasizing the 19th and 20th centuries. Major topics include theories of social conflict, slavery and interracial violence, predatory crime, labor strife, and the response to crime, especially the rise of prisons and a professional police force.Senechal.