Swift to wrath : lynching in global historical perspective / edited by William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep.

Other author Carrigan, William D., 1970-
Other author Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Descriptionviii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents "Vengeance is mine": "lynching" in the ancient Near East? / Scott Morschauser -- Witch lynching past and present / Brian P. Levack -- "This community will not in the future be disgraced": Rafael Benavides and the decline of lynching in New Mexico / William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb -- The specter of lynching in France: familiar word, unfamiliar reality / Joël Michel -- Informal justice in Northern Ireland / Rachel Monaghan -- "Let each reader judge": lynching, race, and immigrant newspapers / Robert Zecker -- British public debates and the "Americanization" of lynching / Sarah L. Silkey -- Lynching across the Pacific: Japanese views and African American responses in the wartime antilynching campaign / Fumiko Sakashita -- U.S. lynch law and the fate of the Soviet Union: the Soviet uses of American racial violence / Meredith L. Roman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012041252
ISBN9780813934143 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813934141 (cloth : alk. paper)

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