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Global Lynching and Collective Violence

Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
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In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel, Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema SantamarĂ­a, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda.

Author Biography:

Michael J. Pfeifer is a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 and The Roots of Rough Justice, and editor of Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South and Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Release date NZ
September 22nd, 2017
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Amy Chazkel
  • Contributions by Brent M.S. Campney
  • Contributions by Dean J Kotlowski
  • Contributions by Gema Santamaria
  • Contributions by Hannah Skoda
  • Contributions by Michael J. Pfeifer
  • Contributions by Ryan Shaffer
  • Contributions by Stephen P Frank
  • Edited by Michael J Pfeifer
Pages
232
ISBN-13
9780252041389
Product ID
26805427

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