Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947
by Michael J. Pfeifer
University of Illinois Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-252-02917-2 | Paper: 978-0-252-07405-9 Library of Congress Classification HV6457.P44 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 364.134
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael J. Pfeifer teaches American history at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
REVIEWS
"In this thought-provoking, impressively researched, sweeping study of rough justice in the United States, Pfeifer expands the history of lynching and its transmutation from popular, ritualized collective violece to state-sanctioned, sanitized execution, that is, legal lynching."--American Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Mobs across Time and Space: The Chronology and Geography of
Lynching
2. The Making of Mobs: The Social Relations of Lynchers
3. Judge Lynch and the Color Line: Mobs and Race
4. Rough Justice and the Revolt against Due Process: Lynching as
Cultural Conflict
5. Judge Lynch's Demise: Legal and Cultural Change and the
Decline of Mobs
Epilogue
Appendix: Confirmed Lynchings and Near Lynchings
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: 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
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947
by Michael J. Pfeifer
University of Illinois Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-252-02917-2 Paper: 978-0-252-07405-9
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael J. Pfeifer teaches American history at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
REVIEWS
"In this thought-provoking, impressively researched, sweeping study of rough justice in the United States, Pfeifer expands the history of lynching and its transmutation from popular, ritualized collective violece to state-sanctioned, sanitized execution, that is, legal lynching."--American Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Mobs across Time and Space: The Chronology and Geography of
Lynching
2. The Making of Mobs: The Social Relations of Lynchers
3. Judge Lynch and the Color Line: Mobs and Race
4. Rough Justice and the Revolt against Due Process: Lynching as
Cultural Conflict
5. Judge Lynch's Demise: Legal and Cultural Change and the
Decline of Mobs
Epilogue
Appendix: Confirmed Lynchings and Near Lynchings
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: 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