New Worlds of Violence
Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg O’brien (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, corresponding author), G O''Brien, G O'Brien |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 885-886 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jas337 |
| OpenAlex | W2312511153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This first book by Macon State College history professor Matthew Jennings employs a “cultures of violence” analysis to gain insight into early European-Indian interaction in the Southeast. Jennings explains that his work seeks “to explain violence in the Southeast from multiple perspectives” and to show how the English came to assert their own culture of violence over the region by the early eighteenth century (p. xxi). Competing Spanish, English, French, and Indian cultures of violence help us, according to Jennings, better understand why Indians and Europeans interacted in the ways they did, from Hernando de Soto's expedition (1539–1542) to the founding of the colony of Georgia in the 1730s. Although the history presented here is in many ways a familiar one, Jennings brings to the discussion a focus on the variety of European and native understandings of physical violence and an examination of the contexts in which such violence was expected, acceptable, or necessary. Thus, we learn a good deal about why the Spanish employed religion-infused warfare in the sixteenth-century South, how the French conceived of colonization and “theatrical violence” in seventeenth-century Florida, why the English employed extreme violence through a desire to maximize profits gained from human bondage, and why southeastern Indian people utilized focused violence against Europeans and other Indian groups. Commendably, Jennings recognizes that cultures are not static and that reasons for violence derive both from inherited cultural traditions and new contingent circumstances
Criminology · Culture of the United States · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |