Globalizing lynching history: vigilantism and extralegal punishment from an international perspective

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. MANFRED BERG Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelburg, Germany. SIMON WENDT Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. INDICE: 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, 1980b 2003; 'T.Clark ' - Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond; 'T.Grätz ' - Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; 'C.Schuetze' & 'C.Jacobs'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11588-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés