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Contents Introduction 1 William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep Part 1. The Practice of Lynching: From the Ancient Middle East to Late Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland “Vengeance Is Mine”: “Lynching” in the Ancient Near East? 15 Scott Morschauser Witch Lynching Past and Present 49 Brian P. Levack “This Community Will Not in the Future Be Disgraced”: Rafael Benavides and the Decline of Lynching in New Mexico 68 William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb The Specter of Lynching in France: Familiar Word, Unfamiliar Reality 97 Joël Michel Informal Justice in Northern Ireland 116 Rachel Monaghan Part 2. American Lynching and International Meanings: How the British, Japanese, Russians, and Slovaks Gave Meaning to American Lynching “Let Each Reader Judge”: Lynching, Race, and Immigrant Newspapers 137 Robert Zecker viii Contents British Public Debates and the “Americanization” of Lynching 160 Sarah L. Silkey Lynching across the Pacific: Japanese Views and African American Responses in the Wartime Antilynching Campaign 181 Fumiko Sakashita U.S. Lynch Law and the Fate of the Soviet Union: The Soviet Uses of American Racial Violence 215 Meredith L. Roman Contributors 237 Index 241 [44.204.99.5] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:42 GMT) SwifttoWrath ...