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.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2011]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.