Michael J. Pfeifer is a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. 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 and Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Michael J. Pfeifer1. Collective Violence and Popular Justice in the Later Middle Ages / Hannah Skoda2. Unofficial Justice and Community in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 / Stephen P. Frank3. "A lei de Lynch": Reconsidering the View from Brazil of Lynching in the United States, 1880s–1920s / Amy Chazkel4. Lynching, Religion, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla / Gema Santamaría5. "Canadians Are Not Proficient in the Art of Lynching": Mob Violence, Social Regulation, and National Identity / Brent M. S. Campney6. "Negro and White Unite": The Communist Party's Campaign against Lynching in Indiana and Maryland, 1930-1933 / Dean J. Kotlowski7. Bonded in Hate: The Violent Development of American Skinhead Culture / Ryan ShafferContributorsIndex

Michael J. Pfeifer is a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. 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 and Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Michael J. Pfeifer1. Collective Violence and Popular Justice in the Later Middle Ages / Hannah Skoda2. Unofficial Justice and Community in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 / Stephen P. Frank3. "A lei de Lynch": Reconsidering the View from Brazil of Lynching in the United States, 1880s–1920s / Amy Chazkel4. Lynching, Religion, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla / Gema Santamaría5. "Canadians Are Not Proficient in the Art of Lynching": Mob Violence, Social Regulation, and National Identity / Brent M. S. Campney6. "Negro and White Unite": The Communist Party's Campaign against Lynching in Indiana and Maryland, 1930-1933 / Dean J. Kotlowski7. Bonded in Hate: The Violent Development of American Skinhead Culture / Ryan ShafferContributorsIndex

Michael J. Pfeifer is a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. 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 and Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Michael J. Pfeifer1. Collective Violence and Popular Justice in the Later Middle Ages / Hannah Skoda2. Unofficial Justice and Community in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 / Stephen P. Frank3. "A lei de Lynch": Reconsidering the View from Brazil of Lynching in the United States, 1880s–1920s / Amy Chazkel4. Lynching, Religion, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla / Gema Santamaría5. "Canadians Are Not Proficient in the Art of Lynching": Mob Violence, Social Regulation, and National Identity / Brent M. S. Campney6. "Negro and White Unite": The Communist Party's Campaign against Lynching in Indiana and Maryland, 1930-1933 / Dean J. Kotlowski7. Bonded in Hate: The Violent Development of American Skinhead Culture / Ryan ShafferContributorsIndex