Description: Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-century North Carolina.
Review Quotes: "Lee's impressive case study of violence in North Carolina is a highly valuable addition to the growing bodies of work on crowd behavior, civil-military relations, the performative nature of public culture during the colonial and revolutionary eras, and the southern phase of the War for Independence."