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The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching
Title
The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching / Michael J. Pfeifer.
ISBN
9780252036132 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0252036131 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
Physical Description
x, 143 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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