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This book examines the changing meanings and significance of the physical form among the Anglo-Saxons from 1880 to 1920. It brings together the many areas in which the physical form was featured, from photography through literature, frontier wars, violent sports, and the global circus

Cover Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I WHAT IS LYNCHING? -- 1 The Processes of Lynching Around the World -- 2 The Roots of Mob Murder: Crises of Legitimacy, Dangers of the Frontier -- 3 Concepts of Crime and Justice in Lynching -- PART II LYNCHING AND CULTURAL CHANGE: IMAGES OF SEX, SAVAGES, AND WOMEN -- 4 Race, Civilization, and Sexuality: A Global Conversation -- 5 Reordering Racism: Imperialism and the Challenges of New Contact in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Body Revealed in the Anglo-American World, 1885-1914 -- PART III BLOOD, DEBATE, AND REDEMPTION IN GEORGIA: THE PATH TOWARD REFORM -- 7 The World of Southern Racism: The Long Education of a Georgia Gentleman -- 8 Atlanta in Turmoil: The White Elite Reacts to Murder -- 9 From Burning Women to Protest and Action -- Conclusion: The Difficulty of Seeing Lynching -- Index.

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough re-examination of the background, dynamics and decline of American lynching. It argues that collective homicide in the US cannot be properly understood solely through a discussion of the unsettled southern political situation after 1865, but must be seen against a global conversation about changing cultural meanings of 'race', as well as concepts of concepts of imperialism, gender, sexuality and 'civilization'.

Examining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s. It suggests that more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by it

This book examines Moscow's politics and urban history between the failed 1905 revolution and the outbreak of the First World War.