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Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways

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The Violent Underpinnings of American Life SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies Ascetics sacrifice their lives forA damning examination of how violence serves to maintain social order and elite power in the United States The Violent Underpinnings of American Life boldly asserts that violencefar from going against American idealsis as American as apple pie, central to the countrys social order and the dominance of its most powerful groups. Drawing from extensive research and analysis of key social, political, and cultural events, Liam Downey investigates the