| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Michael J. Pfeifer. Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. x, 245. $35.00.

Scholars in recent years have produced dozens of good books on lynching, moving the subject toward the center of American history generally and specifically to struggles with race, violence, and law. Some have focused on a single lynching, placing one tragic event in larger contexts. Others have sought to find patterns across time and space, usually the South from post-Reconstruction to the 1930s. Michael J. Pfeifer takes the nation as his subject. He reminds us, as has other recent work, that lynching was not ephemeral and not exclusively southern. More important, Pfeifer attempts to create order out of the chaos of thousands of lynchings by showing how and why lynching patterns reflected social identities, beliefs, and values.

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