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The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching /

In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study 'Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947', Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pfeifer, Michael J. (Michael James), 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Collective violence in the British Atlantic
  • Vigilantes, criminal justice, and Antebellum cultural conflict
  • Racial and class frontiers: lynching and social identity in Antebellum America
  • Lynchers versus due process: the forging of rough justice
  • The Civil War and reconstruction and the remaking of American lynching
  • Epilogue.