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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Part I Introduction and Overview -- 1. Perspectives on Collective Violence -- Part II Theoretical Issues -- 2. Interpreting Collective Violence: An Argument for the Importance of Social Structure -- 3. Issueless Riots -- 4. A Critical Note on Conceptions of Collective Behavior -- 5. Two Critics in Search of a Bias: A Response to Currie and Skolnick -- 6. Agonistics-Rituals of Conflict -- 7. The Legitimation of Violence -- 8. The Controversy Surrounding Analyses of Collective Violence: Some Methodological Notes -- Part III Comparative Perspectives -- 9. Patterns in International Warfare, 1816-1965 -- 10. Sources of Rebellion in Western Societies : Some Quantitative Evidence -- 11. Conflict without Violence and Violence without Conflict in a Mexican Mestizo Village -- 12. Violence in East African Tribal Societies -- 13. Violence in the New Guinea Highlands -- 14. Violence in Burmese History : A Psychocultural Explanation -- 15. The Place of Aggression in Social Interaction -- Part IV Dimensions of Collective Violence in the United States -- 16. The Paradox of American Violence: A Historical Appraisal -- 17. The Psychology of Political Activity -- 18. Rebellion and Repression and the Vietnam War -- 19. Cultural Value Orientations and Student Protest -- 20. Campus Protests and the Vietnam War -- 21. Campus Conflict as Formative Influence -- 22. Local Political Leadership and Popular Discontent in the Ghetto -- 23. The Emergence of Muted Violence in Crowd Behavior: A Case Study of an Almost Race Riot -- 24. Police Violence and Its Public Support -- 25. The Police and Collective Violence in Contemporary America -- Part V In Search of Alternatives -- 26. The Nonviolent Alternative: Research Strategy and Preliminary Findings

Despite the ubiquity of violence in world history, & the efforts of scholars & nat'l commissions to diagnose its causes & prescribe solutions, violence remains a major soc problem in many parts of the world. Indeed, it is such in part because of these efforts, & because understanding & solution are problematic. Papers in this issue are reviewed & the respective roles of relations between nat'l commissions & the scholarly community discussed. (See also SA 0829/0779, 2147/F0238, 0829/E9777, 0829/E9782, 1535/0000,2147/F0237, 0312/E9518, 1653/F0092, 0322/E9562, 0826/E9734, 0911/E9791, 0623/E9678, 0829/9776, 0925/E9803.) HA.