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

Contributor(s): Waldrep, Christopher, 1951- | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2006Description: xxii, 281 p. ; 26 cm.Subject(s): Lynching -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 364.1/34 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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