Swift to Wrath : Lynching in Global Historical Perspective /

Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal execution of African Americans in the American South. The nine essays collected here look at lynching in the context of world history, encouraging a complete rethinking of the history of collective violence. Employing a diverse ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-, Carrigan, William D., 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
History.
Violence.
Criminal enforcement.
Lynchjustiz
Lynching.
Lynchage > Histoire.
Lynching > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Vengeance is mine": "lynching" in the ancient Near East? / Scott Morschauser
  • Witch lynching past and present / Brian P. Levack
  • "This community will not in the future be disgraced": Rafael Benavides and the decline of lynching in New Mexico / William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb
  • The specter of lynching in France: familiar word, unfamiliar reality / Joël Michel
  • Informal justice in Northern Ireland / Rachel Monaghan
  • "Let each reader judge": lynching, race, and immigrant newspapers / Robert Zecker
  • British public debates and the "Americanization" of lynching / Sarah L. Silkey
  • Lynching across the Pacific: Japanese views and African American responses in the wartime antilynching campaign / Fumiko Sakashita
  • U.S. lynch law and the fate of the Soviet Union: the Soviet uses of American racial violence / Meredith L. Roman.

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