This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 Contributor(s): Baker, Bruce E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847252389 ISBN-13: 9781847252388 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: A comprehensive history of lynching and mob violence in North and South Carolina, focusing on seven specific case studies from the region. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century - History | United States - 20th Century |
Dewey: 364.134 |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.54" W x 9.44" (1.18 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Cultural Region - South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book traces the history of mob violence in North and South Carolina, probing the origins of a phenomenon that has left an open wound in the American psyche. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baker, Bruce E.: - Bruce E. Baker is Lecturer in American History at Newcastle University, UK. He is author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South and After Slavery: Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South. |