Screen LibraryGlobalizing lynching history Vigilantism and extralegal punishment from an international perspective /
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230115880, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 272 p. : 0 ill. |
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9780230115880 9781137001245 : 1137001240 : |
| CLC: | D917 |
| Contents: | Lynching from an International Perspective-- M.Berg & S.Wendt Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching-- M.Pfeifer Lynching 'Exceptionalism': The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American-- C.Waldrep Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States-- W.Carrigan & C.Webb Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder-- R.Thurston Lynching: The Southern African Case-- C.Saunders Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia-- G.Smithers Ethnic Conflict, the Arme |