Title Lynching in the West, 1850-1935 / Ken Gonzales-Day.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HV6468.C2 G66 2006	Available	---

Description	xii, 299 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Note	"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-286) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Searching for California's hang trees -- Counting the dead : frontier justice and the antilynching movement -- The greatest good : capital punishment or popular justice? -- In the shadow of photography : copy prints in the archive -- Signifying bodies : unblushing and monstrous -- The wonder gaze -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Case list of lynchings and summary executions -- Appendix 2: Selected list of legal and military executions -- Appendix 3: Pardons, 1849-59.
Subject	Lynching -- California -- History.
	Lynching.
	California.
	History.
	Lynching -- California -- History -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form	Pictorial works.
Subject	Vigilance committees -- California -- History.
	Vigilance committees.
	Extrajudicial executions -- California -- History.
	Extrajudicial executions.
Genre/Form	Illustrated works.
	Illustrated works.
ISBN	0822337819 cloth alkaline paper
	0822337940 paperback alkaline paper
	9780822337812
	9780822337942
Standard No.	9780822337812
	9780822337942