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Author:   Christine Daniels ,  Michael V. Kennedy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780415918053

ISBN 10:   0415918057
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   17 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

OVERVIEWS 1. Christine Daniels--Intimate Violence, Now and Then 2. G. S. Rowe and Jack D. Marietta--Personal Violence in a Peaceable Kingdom: Pennsylvania, 1682-1801 3. Jacquelyn C. Miller--Governing the Passions: The Eighteenth-Century Quest for Domestic Harmony in Philadelphia's Middle-Class Households HUSBANDS, WIVES, AND LOVERS 4. Randolph A. Roth--Spousal Murder in Northern New England, 1776-1865 5. Edward E. Baptist--My Mind is to Drown You and Leave You Behind: 'Omie Wise', Intimate Violence, and Masculinity 6. Ed Hatton--He Murdered Her Because He Loved Her: Passion, Masculinity and Intimate Homicide in Antebellum America 7. Jenifer Banks--A New Home for Whom? Caroline Kirkland and Domestic Abuse on the Michigan Frontier 8. Stephanie Cole--Keeping the Peace: Domestic Assault and Private Prosecution in Antebellum Baltimore PARENTS AND CHILDREN 9. Merril D. Smith--Unnatural Mothers: Infanticide, Motherhood, and Class in the Mid-Atlantic, 1730-1830 10. James D. Rice--Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812 11. Jeffrey H. Richards--Decorous Violence: Manners, Class, and Abuse in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy MASTERS, SERVANTS, AND SLAVES 12. Terri L. Snyder--As If There Were Not Master or Woman in the Land: Gender, Dependency, and Household Violence in Virginia, 1646-1720 13. Trevor Burnard--A Theater of Terror: Domestic Violence in Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaica, 1750-1786 14. T. Stephen Whitman--I Have Got the Gun and Will Do As I Please with Her: African-Americans and Violence in Maryland, 1782-1830 15. Christopher Morris--Within the Slave Cabin: Violence in Mississippi Slave Families Contributors' Biographies Index

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Over the Threshold is a fine collections of essays that will appeal to graduate and undergraduate audiences as well as scholars of early American women, crime, sexuality, families and labor. The volume provides a fascinating exploration of the many facets of intimate violence in early America. <br>- Journal of Southern History, November 2001 <br>... particularly compelling. <br>- The Journal of Interdisciplinary History <br> The places and time covered, the inventive use of sources, and the rigor with which they are analyzed, make this collection valuable as both academic history and a teaching tool. Together, these essays fill a gap in the early American historiography and set the stage for future studies. <br>- Maryland Historical Magazine <br> Contributors offer interesting accounts of physical abuse (involving slaves and children, as well as women) in the context of specific locations and times....For its breadth, more unusual subject matter, and readability, Over the Threshhold is the more distinctive [when compared with Understanding Domestic Homicide]. <br>- Library Journal <br> A fascinating and disturbing collection offering a new angle of vision on relations between men and women in early America. I predict a wide readership for this book. <br>-Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to be Ladies <br>

Over the Threshold is a fine collections of essays that will appeal to graduate and undergraduate audiences as well as scholars of early American women, crime, sexuality, families and labor. The volume provides a fascinating exploration of the many facets of intimate violence in early America. - Journal of Southern History, November 2001 ... particularly compelling. - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History The places and time covered, the inventive use of sources, and the rigor with which they are analyzed, make this collection valuable as both academic history and a teaching tool. Together, these essays fill a gap in the early American historiography and set the stage for future studies. - Maryland Historical Magazine Contributors offer interesting accounts of physical abuse (involving slaves and children, as well as women) in the context of specific locations and times....For its breadth, more unusual subject matter, and readability, Over the Threshhold is the more distinctive [when compared with Understanding Domestic Homicide]. - Library Journal A fascinating and disturbing collection offering a new angle of vision on relations between men and women in early America. I predict a wide readership for this book. -Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to be Ladies

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Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy are both Assistant Professors of History at Michigan State University. Professor Daniels has published several articles on labor in early America. Professor Kennedy is co-editor, with William G. Shade, of The World TurnedUpside-Down: Essays on the State of ColonialNorth-American Studies.

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