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

ISBN-13: 9780230115880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 251 str.

Simon Wendt; Manfred Berg

Opis

The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.

Spis treści

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.Grätz  Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; C.Schuetze  & C.Jacobs

O autorze

Simon Wendt is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.