| Description |
xxii, 281 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings |
| Summary |
"Ranging from personal correspondence to courtroom transcripts to journalistic accounts, historian Christopher Waldrep has extensively mined an enormous quantity of documents about lynching, which he arranges chronologically with concise introductions. From the South to the West, the American Revolution to the "high tech" lynching of today, Lynching in America presents the most comprehensive portrait of extra-legal mob violence to date, demonstrating that while lynching has always been present in American society, it has been anything but one-dimensional."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
| Subject |
Lynching -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2005015600 |
| ISBN |
9780814793985 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814793983 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814793992 paperback alkaline paper |
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0814793991 paperback alkaline paper |
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