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Globalizing Lynching History

Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective

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  1. Manfred Berg
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  2. Simon Wendt
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Lynching from an International Perspective

    • Manfred Berg, Simon Wendt
    Pages 1-18

  3. Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching

    • Michael J. Pfeifer
    Pages 19-34

  4. Lynching “Exceptionalism”: The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American

    • Christopher Waldrep
    Pages 35-51

  5. Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States

    • William D. Carrigan, Clive Webb
    Pages 53-67

  6. Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder

    • Robert W. Thurston
    Pages 69-86

  7. Lynching: The Southern African Case

    • Christopher Saunders
    Pages 87-100

  8. Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia

    • Gregory D. Smithers
    Pages 101-118

  9. Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

    • Ebru Aykut
    Pages 119-135

  10. Popular Justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France

    • Joël Michel
    Pages 137-152

  11. Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland

    • Rachel Monaghan
    Pages 153-171

  12. Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    • Hinnerk Onken
    Pages 173-186

  13. Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980–2003

    • Timothy Clark
    Pages 187-205

  14. Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond

    • Tilo Grätz
    Pages 207-223

  15. “Justice with Our Own Hands”: Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique

    • Carolien Jacobs, Christy Schuetze
    Pages 225-241

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 243-251
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The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.

About the authors

Simon Wendt is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

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