Simon Wendt is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

• Lynching from an International Perspective; M.Berg  & S.Wendt  Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching; M.Pfeifer  Lynching 'Exceptionalism': The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American; C.Waldrep  Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States; W.Carrigan  & C.Webb   Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder; R.Thurston   Lynching: The Southern African Case; C.Saunders  Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia; G.Smithers   Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the late Ottoman Empire; E.Aykut   Popular justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France; J.Michel   Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland; R.Monaghan   Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; H.Onken  Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980—2003; T.Clark  Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond; T.Grätz  Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; C.Schuetze  & C.Jacobs