The Violent Underpinnings of American Life : : How Violence Maintains Social Order in the US / / Liam Downey.
A damning examination of how violence serves to maintain social order and elite power in the UnitedStatesThe Violent Underpinnings of American Life boldly asserts that violence-far from going againstAmerican ideals-is as American as apple pie, central to the country's social order and the domin...
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