The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England 9781474210379

Mob Town: A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End 9780300231205

A captivating history of a notorious neighborhood and the first book to reveal why London’s East End became synonymous w

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Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe 9780271091013

Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western s

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Violence and civil disorder in Italian cities, 1200-1500 9780520019065

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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas 9781682261897, 9781610757614, 1682261891

Winner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award from the East Texas Historical Association In Lynching and Leisure

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Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865--1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings" 9780807141625, 0807141623

"Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book mak

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The 'perpetual fair': Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London 9781526103567

This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings

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Lynching Reconsidered: New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence 1317983955, 9781317983958

The history of lynching and mob violence has become a subject of considerable scholarly and public interest in recent ye

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Vigilante Gender Violence: Social Class, the Gender Bargain, and Mob Attacks on Women Worldwide 0367249073, 9780367249076

In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon. This book dra

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Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe (Early Modern Studies) 9781931112963, 1931112967

Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western s

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Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 – 1900 9781108993586, 2021044723, 2021044724, 9781108834551, 1108993583

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