Globalizing Lynching History
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Globalizing Lynching History

Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective

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eBook - PDF

Globalizing Lynching History

Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Globalizing Lynching History by M. Berg, S. Wendt, M. Berg,S. Wendt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780230115880
eBook ISBN
9781137001245
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figure and Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Lynching from an International Perspective
  9. 1 Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching
  10. 2 Lynching “Exceptionalism”: The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American
  11. 3 Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States
  12. 4 Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder
  13. 5 Lynching: The Southern African Case
  14. 6 Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia
  15. 7 Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
  16. 8 Popular Justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France
  17. 9 Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland
  18. 10 Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  19. 11 Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980–2003
  20. 12 Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond
  21. 13 “Justice with Our Own Hands”: Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index