Lynch-Law, An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the...
A Notable Early Study of Lynching in the United States Cutler, James Elbert [1876-1959]. Lynch-Law: An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States. New York: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1905. xiv, 287 pp. Original cloth, moderate shelfwear and soiling, small location label to spine, front hinge starting, library bookplate and deaccession stamp to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, light soiling to endleaves. $125. * First American edition, published in London the same year. Sociological in approach, this was one of the first significant academic studies of lynching. "Cutler argued that the prevalence of lynchings in the United States was in part the perverted consequence of a democratic ethos and a relatively weak state. Americans were prone to take the law into their own hands because they were inclined to view themselves as the ultimate lawmaker, even though their actions could create a spiral of lawless violence.": Whittington, American Political Thought, Supplementary Material, Chapter 8: The Progressive Era - Equality and Status, 1.
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