Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective
- ISBN-10
- 1409409082
- ISBN-13
- 9781409409083
- Series
- Lynching
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 427
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Author
- Robert W. Thurston
Description
Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough re-examination of the background, dynamics and decline of American lynching. It argues that collective homicide in the US cannot be properly understood solely through a discussion of the unsettled southern political situation after 1865, but must be seen against a global conversation about changing cultural meanings of 'race', as well as concepts of imperialism, gender, sexuality and 'civilization'.
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- 2013-07-28
- 442 pages
- Paperback
- Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
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- 2019-03-12
- 196 pages
- Ebook
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
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- 2019
- 196 pages
- Paperback
- Race, Rhetoric, and Media
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