Violent Land Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City

"Timely, rich, and surprisingly nimble, Courtwright's orderly examination of patterns of violence and disorder in American history ranges from the `passing migratory anomalies' that created the cultural ecology of the frontier to the critical collapse of familial mechanisms of social control in the inner city of today...An authoritative contribution."Courtwright, David T. is the author of 'Violent Land Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City', published 1996 under ISBN 9780674278707 and ISBN 0674278704.