Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective

Book Overview

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 Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the late Ottoman Empire; E.Aykut Popular justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France; J.Michel Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland; R.Monaghan Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; H.Onken Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980-2003; T.Clark Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond; T.Gr?tz Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; C.Schuetze & C.Jacobs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349296996
• ISBN13: 9781349296996
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"