The roots of rough justice: origins of American lynching

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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 rem...

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Main Author: Pfeifer, Michael James 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana [u.a.] University of Illinois Press c 2011
In:Year: 2011
Online Access: Book review (H-Net)
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Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 20 A 5009
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Keywords:
Lynching > United States > History
Culture conflict > United States > History
Social Control > United States > History
Capital Punishment > Social aspects > United States > History
Discrimination in capital punishment > United States > History
USA > Lynchjustiz > Geschichte 1677-1877
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliogr. references and index
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c2011
Physical Description:X, 143 S., Kt., 24 cm
ISBN:0-252-03613-1
978-0-252-03613-2