Black Violence: Political Impact of the 1960s Riots

by James W. Button

Book Overview

While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence. He not only analyzes how and to what extent the national government responded to the black urban riots, but he also moves toward a theoretical definition of the role of collective violence in a democratic society. In so doing, the author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691616175
• ISBN13: 9780691616179
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"