ABSTRACT
Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th at some choose violence tells us something about the perpetrators, inevitably, about ourselves and the society we have built.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|32 pages
Introduction and Overview
chapter 1|30 pages
part II|86 pages
Theoretical Issues
chapter 2|12 pages
Interpreting Collective Violence
An Argument for the Importance of Social Structure
chapter 8|7 pages
The Controversy Surrounding Analyses of Collective Violence
Some Methodological Notes
part III|80 pages
Comparative Perspectives
chapter 12|12 pages
part IV|154 pages
Dimensions of Collective Violence in the United States
chapter 23|20 pages
The Emergence of Muted Violence in Crowd Behavior
A Case Study of An Almost Race Riot
part V|26 pages
In Search of Alternatives
