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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788993903321

Autore

Pfeifer Michael J (Michael James), <1968->

Titolo

The roots of rough justice [[electronic resource] ] : origins of American lynching / / Michael J. Pfeifer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-06390-5

9786613063908

0-252-09309-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/34

Soggetti

Lynching - United States - History

Culture conflict - United States - History

Social control - United States - History

Capital punishment - Social aspects - United States - History

Discrimination in capital punishment - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study 'Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947', Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history.