Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1X Introduction 3 • A White Fist on Their Noses: Colonization and Violence 13 To Take Your Own Part: Violence among the Settlers 46 U I Was Not There to Fight: The Decline and Persistence of Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century 69 .. Plucky Women and Crazed Italians: Representing Violence and Marginality in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver 92 .. To Do Just as He Pleased: Violence in the 1920S 112 Vll viii • Contents U Big as God Almighty and Undemanding as Dew: Violence and People ofAfrican and Japanese Descent 136 Epilogue: Discovering Violence 165 Abbreviations 181 Notes 183 Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources 285 Index 289 ...