Modernization and Lynching in the New South

This article evaluates an emerging body of historical scholarship that challenges prevailing views of the primacy of rural conditions in southern lynching by positing that it was symbiotically associated with the processes of modernization underway in the region in the decades around 1900. Statistic...

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Main Author: Mattias Smångs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2016-09-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-35-825/