@article{351854,
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      author = {Strain, Christopher B.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351854},
      title = {Reload rethinking violence in American life / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Vanderbilt University Press,},
      abstract = {When incidents of extreme violence flare in America, all  too often they are framed as isolated aberrations. Nothing  could be further from the truth, as the author argues in  this book. The unpleasant fact, as he reveals in this  study, is that American violence is inextricably woven into  the fabric of our national heritage and experience.  He  traces our modern day conception of violence from the  struggle to survive on the American frontier, through  evolving gender roles in recent centuries, to the hysteria  surrounding video and role playing games and the more  recent disturbing phenomenon of school shootings. He shapes  nothing less than a profound meditation on American  violence and a "primer" on understanding what can often  appear to be a profoundly dangerous nation.  In addition to  serving as an overview of the state of violence in America,  the book also suggests ways of combating the trends that  lead to tragedy.},
      recid = {351854},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 162 p.)},
      address = {Nashville :},
      year = {2010},
}