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Autore |
Pfeifer Michael J (Michael James), <1968-> |
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Titolo |
The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching / / Michael J. Pfeifer |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-06390-5 |
9786613063908 |
0-252-09309-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (159 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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