Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective

by Manfred Berg (Editor), SimonWendt (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $116.21

  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.