Lynching in America [electronic resource] : a history in documents / edited by Christopher Waldrep.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2006.Description: xxii, 281 p. ; 26 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.1/34 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6457 .L95 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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