| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Dick Steward. Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2000. Pp. 286. $29.95.

Dick Steward likens violence in antebellum Missouri to a pyramid. At its apex stood the formal duel between gentlemen. Next came "semi-institutionalized combat" at militia musters, court days, huskings, and other well-lubricated celebrations. "Slickings," vigilante-style whippings with a green hickory stick, ranked a little lower. Individual whippings, generally of those who had insulted a gentleman but who were considered to be of insufficient social standing to warrant a challenge, came next. The base of the pyramid consisted of everyday, noninstitutionalized forms of violence: the knifings, brawls, and gougings that common men used to settle their disputes and defend their reputations. Steward says little about these directly, although the larger thesis of his book is that upper-class dueling, the most high-profile form of masculine combat, subtly influenced and justified all forms of quarrelsome male violence. . . .

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