Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of Iowa, 1968.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and index.
Contents
Mobs across time and space : the chronology and geography of lynching -- The making of mobs : the social relations of lynchers -- Judge lynch and the color line: mobs and race -- Rough justice and the revolt against due process : lynching as cultural conflict -- Judge lynch's demise : legal and cultural change and the decline of mobs -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Confirmed lynchings and near lynchings.
