Globalizing Lynching History [electronic resource] : Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective /
Berg, M.editor.
Wendt, S.editor.
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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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figure and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lynching from an International Perspective; 1 Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching; 2 Lynching "Exceptionalism": The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American; 3 Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States; 4 Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder; 5 Lynching: The Southern African Case; 6 Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia
7 Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire8 Popular Justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France; 9 Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland; 10 Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 11 Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980-2003; 12 Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond; 13 "Justice with Our Own Hands": Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
World history.
World politics.
Social history.
Criminology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Civilization—History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Political History.
Social History.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Social Theory.
Cultural History.