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Author:

Pfeifer, Michael J. (Michael James), 1968-

Title:

The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching / Michael J. Pfeifer.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 143 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Lynching--United States--History.
Culture conflict--United States--History.
Social control--United States--History.
Capital punishment--History.--United States--History.
Discrimination in capital punishment--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-140) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0252036131 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780252036132 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)670480117

LCCN:

2010046041

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)