Introduction： Lynching from an International Perspective&Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt 1
1 Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching&Michael J.Pfeifer 19
2 Lynching "Exceptionalism"： The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American&Christopher Waldrep 35
3 Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States&William D.Carrigan and Clive Webb 53
4 Lynching and Legitimacy： Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder&Robert W.Thurston 69
5 Lynching： The Southern African Case&Christopher Saunders 87
6 Frontier Justice： Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia&Gregory D.Smithers 101
7 Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire&Ebru Aykut 119
8 Popular Justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France&Joel Michel 137
9 Not Quite Lynching： Informal Justice in Northern Ireland&Rachel Monaghan 153
10 Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries&Hinnerk Onken 173
11 Lynching in Another America： Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980-2003&Timothy Clark 187
12 Vigilantism in Africa： Benin and Beyond&Tilo Gratz 207
13 "Justice with Our Own Hands"： Lynching, Poverty,Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique&Carolien Jacobs and Christy Schuetze 225
Notes on Contributors 243
Index 247