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Mob Violence in the Late Roman Republic, 133-49 B.C

Book by John Wesley Heaton; University of Illinois Press, 1939

Subjects:

Mobs, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Foreign Blood. II. THE RISE OF MOB ACTIVITIES FROM THE GRACCHI...ninus and Glaucia. III. MOB VIOLENCE AND THE RISE OF MILITARY DICTATORS...Saturninus.--Legislation through Violence.-- Sullas Revenge...Unprincipled Opportunist.--Violence of Marius and Cinna in the...
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Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota

Book by John D. Bessler; University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Subjects:

Capital Punishment--Minnesota--History, Executions And Executioners--Minnesota--History, Lynching--Minnesota--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Lynchings in Duluth, 77-85; Infuriated Mob Takes Three Negroes from Police Station...in The Shame of Duluth, 15, 17; Mob Violence: A Photographic Review and Description...92-94; Police Recount Attack of Mob upon City Jail, Duluth News Tribune...
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The People and the Mob: The Ideology of Civil Conflict in Modern Europe

Book by Peter Hayes; Praeger Publishers, 1992

Subjects:

Collective Behavior--History, Crowds--Europe--History, Fascism--Europe--History, Ideology--History, Mobs--Europe--History, Social Conflict--Europe--History

Collections: Entire Library

...the people in the middle, the mob was associated with a class...unwillingness to produce with the mob. These financiers in turn...consolidate this link between the mob and the Jews through the separation...Darwinism and the espousal of violence with contradictory explanations...
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Their Majesties: The Mob

Book by John W. Caughey; University of Chicago Press, 1960

Subjects:

Lynching, Mobs

Collections: Entire Library

...not to be equated with lynch law or mob violence. A number of contemporary observers...the hungriest, craziest, wildest mob . . . that ever I saw anywhere...in 1852--"Their Majesties the Mob," she called them. Why does vigilantism...
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Violence!: Our Fastest-Growing Public Health Problem

Book by John Langone; Little, Brown, 1984

Subjects:

Aggressiveness, Violence--Juvenile Literature, Violence--Prevention--Juvenile Literature, Violent Crimes--Juvenile Literature

Collections: Entire Library

...us begin our discussion of group violence by looking at what psychologists...some of the other forms of group violence to be discussed later, mob violence is often unplanned and unorganized; a mobs members lose their ability to think...

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Journal Articles on: mob violence

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Lynching and Mob Violence: Challenging the Dominant Narratives

Journal article by Ashley M. Howard; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynching in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...American population. This Mob Will Surely Take My Life...Rebecca N. Hills Men, Mobs, and Law not only contribute...of the role of racial violence in African American life...these actions. In This Mob Will Surely Take My Life...18) Baker, This Mob Will Surely, 119...and Beck, Festival of Violence, 271-73. (20) Hill, Men, Mobs, and Law, 3. (21...
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Black Vigilantism: The Rise and Decline of African American Lynch Mob Activity in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1883-1923

Journal article by Karlos K. Hill; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010

Subjects:

Black-white relations, Lynching--Demographic aspects, Lynching--History, Mobs, Vigilantes

Collections: History, Entire Library

...targets of white lynch mobs, and racist discourses...of lynching and mob violence for both whites...African American mobs lynched other African...viewed extra-legal violence as a necessary response...African American lynch mob incidents within...objective of these mob actions was revenge...African American lynch mobs typically eschewed rituals of violence such as mutilation...
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Mob Rule in New Orleans: Anarchy, Governance, and Media Representation

Journal article by James Edward Ford Iii; Biography, Vol. 33, 2010

Subjects:

African Americans--Political aspects, African Americans--Social aspects, Anarchism--Analysis, Collective behavior--Political aspects, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Autobiography)--Criticism and interpretation, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Political aspects, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects, Hurricanes--Political aspects, Hurricanes--Social aspects, Hurricanes--United States, Mob Rule in New Orleans (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Radicalism--Analysis, Wells, Ida B.--Criticism and interpretation, Wells, Ida B.--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...indistinguishable from the riotous mobs, but also explore his...that Wellss account in Mob Rule in New Orleans provides...repression, the threat of mob violence against evidence, and...leadership. Although Mob Rule in New Orleans offers...to the issue of racial violence, it raises a much greater...
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This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947

Journal article by Gregory Mixon; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 76, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865-1941 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...nationally in ending lynching and mob violence" (p. 6). The...white North Carolinians "to violence in a way that seemed to make...failures to oppose antiblack violence that would define the nineteenth...instability caused by CUG and Klan violence led to the impeachment of Republican...with a note justifying the mobs actions: "We take executive...
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African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era. This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas

Journal article by Clive Webb; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2011

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African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...cultural memory of mob violence; literary...resistance to racial violence, it also provides clear...to the activities of mobs over place and time...African Americans by white mobs in Tulsa, Oklahoma...numerous forms of racial violence on blacks. Waldrep...typically underreported mob violence. To help address the...

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Magazine Articles on: mob violence

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The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth Century England

Magazine article by Patrick Dillon; History Today, Vol. 54, November 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The London Mob Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth Century England (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Patrick Dillon The London Mob Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth...isnt really about the London Mob at all (a title which hardly...nor yet about his subtitle, Violence and Disorder (although there...pursuer), they joined political mobs, pulled down the houses of...system. A few took to mindless violence; the rest noisily panicked...
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Spontaeous Combustion or Organised Violence? the World, Including Most of Africa, Was Shocked and Horrified as Mobs in South Africa Rampaged against Foreigners. Most of the Victims Were Zimbabweans Trying to Eke out a Bare Living. What Led to This Sudden Outbreak of Violence? Was It Spontaneous or Was It Organised? Tom Nevin Has Gathered Together a Few Clues

Magazine article; African Business, July 2008

Subjects:

Foreign visitors--Crimes against, South Africa--Social aspects, Unemployment--Influence, Unemployment--South Africa, Violence--International aspects, Violence--Media coverage, Visitors, Foreign--Crimes against

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...Shocked and Horrified as Mobs in South Africa Rampaged...response to the township violence. "It looks like there...advisory soon after the mob rampages erupted on 11...these incidents of mob violence have sprung up quickly...Soweto largely escaped the violence. Most outbreaks in Gauteng...
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Mobs Attack Gays in Jamaica

Magazine article; Contemporary Sexuality, Vol. 42, April 2008

Subjects:

Gays & lesbians, Homophobia, Human rights, Jamaica, Violence

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Mobs Attack Gays in Jamaica A gay man was recently attacked by a mob of more than a dozen people...incident. A year ago, another mob broke into a church during...Hated to Death: Homophobia, Violence and Jamaicas HIV/AIDS Epidemic...and lesbians in Jamaica face violence at home, in public, even...
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The 'divine Violence' of Slavoj Zizek

Magazine article by Chris Berg; Review - Institute of Public Affairs, Vol. 62, June 2010

Subjects:

Europe, Marxism, Personal profiles, Philosophers, Violence, Zizek, Slavoj

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...denunciation of critics of divine violence who focus on the victims of terror...three bank workers. Writing of the mob violence of Haiti under Jean-Bertrand...of systematic state and economic violence and exploitation. For those Greek...
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Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat

Magazine article by Louise Gray, Dinyar Godrej, Malcolm Lewis, Peter Whittaker; New Internationalist, October 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat. by Louise Gray...surrounded by a roused Muslim mob who poured fuel into it and...wave of state-orchestrated violence swept up minority Muslims in...contributor, starts from the violence and exposes the nauseating...

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Newspaper Articles on: mob violence

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Leaders Can Stop Mob Violence: Prof

Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), February 17, 2010

Subjects:

College faculty, College teachers, Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...easier to direct the group. The mob seemed very organised in the...she said. She said the mob need not be a negative and cited...movement in the United States as mob activities that had led to positive...change. They were examples how mobs could be organised and have goals. She did not believe violence was becoming more prevalent...
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Disgust at Fresh Mob Violence

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), October 27, 2010

Subjects:

Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Disgust at Fresh Mob Violence. ACC Duncan McCausland was responding after a second night of violence in the area.
violence on Tuesday night was at a lower level...
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THE RIOT ACT; Playwright Stages Drama Inspired by Mob Violence

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), February 12, 2012

Subjects:

Dramatists--Demonstrations and protests, Playwrights--Demonstrations and protests, Violence--Demonstrations and protests

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Playwright Stages Drama Inspired by Mob Violence. Byline: ANUJI VARMA THE riots...scene of some of the most shocking violence. Playwright Richard Green has...horrified by the looting and mob violence that he was inspired to write about...
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EXPOSED: GIRL IN CAMILLA ATTACK; POLICE HUNT STUDENT WHO BATTERED LIMO; CCTV SHOWS MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST ROYALS; Riot Suspects Caught on CCTV

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 4, 2011

Subjects:

Riots, Violence--Demonstrations and protests

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...STUDENT WHO BATTERED LIMO; CCTV SHOWS MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST ROYALS; Riot Suspects Caught...woman was at the centre of the violent mob attack on Prince Charles and Camillas...CCTV images released today show the mob battering the convoy of three cars...
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REVENGE MOB PAIR FACE JAIL; Gang Awaitsfate after 'Shotgun Terror' Trial: VIOLENCE DUO AWAIT FATE

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), March 13, 2010

Subjects:

Terrorists, Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

REVENGE MOB PAIR FACE JAIL; Gang Awaitsfate...after Shotgun Terror Trial: VIOLENCE DUO AWAIT FATE. Byline...with intent to cause fear of violence yesterday. Empson was acquitted...with intent to cause fear of violence Empson, 27, was cleared...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: mob violence

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Lynching

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...otherwise killing a person by mob action. The term is derived...commonly applied to racist violence in the post Civil War American...intrinsic danger of resorting to violence and hasty injustice, and posed...lynchings were not spontaneous mob violence but involved a degree of planning...
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Vigilantes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...well-constituted government and a police force, they were strictly illegal and usually were merely the expression of mob violence. See W. Gard, Frontier Justice (1949, repr. 1968); S. A. Coblentz, Villains and Vigilantes (rev. ed. 1957...
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Diggers

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...resistance from the landowners on whose property they encroached. In the spring of 1650 their community was destroyed by mob violence, and the experiment was abandoned. Winstanleys Law of Freedom (1652) extended his thesis that English law and institutions...
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Australia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...experienced deadly bush fires, in South Australia. The Sydney area was stunned by several days of ethnically-based mob violence (between Australians of European and Middle Eastern descent) in Dec., 2005. A scandal involving kickbacks paid...
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Integration

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Forced integration led to much violence. The most notable instance...federal judges order. In 1962 63 violence erupted in Mississippi, precipitating...of Mississippi in 1962. A mob gathered and attacked the force...The buses were attacked by mobs in Anniston, Ala., where...in Los Angeles, erupted in violence, leaving 34 dead. The next...

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