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The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history.

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Lynching from an International Perspective; M.Berg & S.Wendt Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching; M.Pfeifer Lynching ´Exceptionalism´: The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American; C.Waldrep Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States; W.Carrigan & C.Webb Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder; R.Thurston Lynching: The Southern African Case; C.Saunders Frontier Justice: Lynching and Racial Violence in the United States and Australia; G.Smithers Ethnic Conflict, the Armenian Question, and Mob Violence in the late Ottoman Empire; E.Aykut Popular justice, Class Conflict, and the Lynching Spirit in France; J.Michel Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland; R.Monaghan Lynching in Peru in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; H.Onken Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980-2003; T.Clark Vigilantism in Africa: Benin and Beyond; T.Grätz Lynching, Poverty, Witchcraft, and the State in Mozambique; C.Schuetze & C.Jacobs

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Simon Wendt is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

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