Article: Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. (Book Reviews).(Review)

Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. Edited by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy. (New York and London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. viii, 296. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-415-91805-7; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-91804-9.)

Over the Threshold is a well-crafted collection of fifteen essays on violence in America to 1865. The essays range from overviews to case studies, from violence between lovers to violence against workers, and from frontier to urban settings. They are united in their attention to personal forms of violent behavior, yet they utilize diverse sources (literary, legal, personal, print culture) to try to understand the relationship of ...

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