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Popular justice : a history of lynching in America
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Popular justice : a history of lynching in America / Manfred Berg.
ISBN
9781566638029 (cloth : alk. paper)
156663802X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781566639200 (electronic)
1566639204 (electronic)
Published
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2011.
Physical Description
xiii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 21, 2011
Series
The American ways series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.
Contents
The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America
The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America
Frontier justice
Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years
"Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow
Popular justice beyond black and white
The struggle against lynching
From lynching to hate crime
Lynching in American memory and culture.
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