Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 by Michael J. Pfeifer
The history of lynching
Rough Justice
Summary
Investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to rough justice that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century. This work examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions.
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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
About Michael J. Pfeifer
Michael J. Pfeifer teaches American history at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
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CIN025207405XG
9780252074059
025207405X
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 by Michael J. Pfeifer
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Illinois Press
20060222
256
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