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Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs : Narratives of Community and Nation
Looking at the narrative accounts of mob violence produced by vigilantes and their advocates as "official" histories, Lisa Arellano shows how these nonfiction narratives conformed to a common formula whose purpose was to legitimate frontier justice and lynching. In Vigilantes and Lynch Mob...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia PA :
Temple University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- From street brawls to heroism : the official vigilante histories
- Heroic stories : vigilante ideals and lynching truths
- John/the victim/the heathen : Hubert Howe Bancroft and the making of western heroism
- Narrative revisions and the end of the vigilante ideal
- Conclusion : living in, and with, the past.