Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252082311 ISBN 13 : 9780252082313

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252082311
• ISBN 13: 9780252082313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Pfeifer Michael J.
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