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Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Michael J. Pfeifer
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Description for Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Paperback. Editor(s): Pfeifer, Michael J. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBL; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored ... Read more
Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252082313
SKU
V9780252082313
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About Michael J. Pfeifer
Michael J. Pfeifer is an associate professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 and The Roots of Rough Justice, and editor of Lynching beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence outside the South.
Reviews for Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
"This collection makes a significant contribution to the global study of lynching, mob violence, and vigilantism. The book provides historical depth, theoretical perspective and covers a wide chronological and geographical range. It will be of great benefit to all students of collective violence."
Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America "Michael Pfeifer's collection of essays on ... Read more
Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America "Michael Pfeifer's collection of essays on ... Read more