Lethal Imagination

Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History

Lethal Imagination was written by and Michael A. Bellesiles. The 453 page book was published by NYU Press in 1999 with an ISBN 10 of 0814712959. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Lethal Imagination mentions 1 serial killers including Belle Gunness. The author Michael A. Bellesiles has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.