Globalizing Lynching History

The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.

Autorentext
Simon Wendt is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Inhalt
Lynching from an International Perspective; M.Berg & S.Wendt Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching; M.Pfeifer Lynching 'Exceptionalism': The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American; C.Waldrep Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States; W.Carrigan & C.Webb Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder; R.Thurston Lynching: The Southern African Case; C.Saunders Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia; G.Smithers Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the late Ottoman Empire; E.Aykut Popular justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France; J.Michel Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland; R.Monaghan Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; H.Onken Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 19802003; T.Clark Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond; T.Grätz Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; C.Schuetze & C.Jacobs