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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.
Author
Pfeifer, Michael J. (Michael James), 1968-
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

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Description
x, 143 p. : maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Lynching > United States > History
  • Culture conflict > United States > History
  • Social control > United States > History
  • Capital punishment > Social aspects > History. > United States
  • Discrimination in capital punishment > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-140) 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.
Call Number
Sc E 12-319
ISBN
  • 9780252036132 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252036131 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010046041
OCLC
670480117
Author
Pfeifer, Michael J. (Michael James), 1968-
Title
The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching / Michael J. Pfeifer.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-140) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 12-319
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