Michael J Pfeifer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1103778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Pfeifer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfeifer |
| SIGNATURE | PFEIFER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York Graduate Center , New York, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Violent World of Broadus Miller
Philip Dray. A Lynching at Port Jervis
The Silent Shore
Journal Article The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State Get access The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State. By Charles L Chavis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. xiv, 288 pp. $29.95.) Michael J Pfeifer Michael J Pfeifer John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, New Y…
Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. ’s Seminole Burning and the Historiography of the Lynching of Native Americans
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Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Banzai! And the Others Die—Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking
In this chapter, Frank Jacob carefully examines another significant manifestation of collective violence in Asian history: the mass atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against Chinese in the Rape of Nanking in 1937 and 1938. First analyzing at length the contentious historiography and historical evidence surrounding this pivotal episode of collective violence performed by agents of the Japanese state, Jacob then closely examines the violenc…
Tameka Bradley Hobbs. Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
Tameka Bradley Hobbs’s well-written and well-researched book offers in-depth case studies of four lynchings that occurred in Florida in the early to mid-1940s. Drawing on extensive research amassed from state and federal governmental archives, newspapers, and interviews with descendants of the lynching victims, Hobbs carefully reconstructs these episodes of racially motivated collective murder. Throughout Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racia…
Lynching Beyond Dixie
In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This book fills this gap by illuminating the…
Kidada E. Williams. They Left Great Marks on Me
The roots of rough justice
Analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history, scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers. Pfeifer offers new insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era and examines the antecedents of American lynching in an early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage. He addresses the tran…
Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country
Journal Article Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910 Get access Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910. Law in the American West Series. By Ellis Mark R.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xix + 262 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, CAN$56.25, £29.00.) Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer Jo…
The Body in the Reservoir
like Tanner, who belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, stressed not theological understanding but actual human experience of the divine (as in Annunciation, 1898).He developed his own "visual theology" (p.49) that emphasized the individual's active response to God's presence.And like Eakins, Tanner found religious subjects and realism entirely compatible.As Tanner turned from depiction of contemporary African Americans (such as the …
Rough Justice
Rough Justice
Wisconsin’s Last Decade of Lynching, 1881–91
Historians have devoted much analysis to the lynchings that occurred in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern United States, and some to the lynchings that occurred in western states and territories. By comparison, the lesser but nonetheless significant amount of mob violence that occurred in the Midwest has gone relatively unexamined. This essay explores the lynching violence that occurred in the late nineteenth century i…
Lynching in America
Lynching in America: A History in Documents Get access Waldrep Christopher, ed. Lynching in America: A History in Documents. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xxii, 281 pp. $24.00. Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 454–455, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039563 Pu…
Rough Justice
Journal Article Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947 Get access Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947. By Pfeifer Michael J.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x + 245 pp. Maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Stephen J. Leonard Stephen J. Leonard Metropolitan State College of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly,…
The Lynching of Cleo Wright
Journal Article The Lynching of Cleo Wright Get access Capeci Dominic J.Jr., The Lynching of Cleo Wright. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 290 pp. $29.95. Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer Evergreen State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 319–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113870 Published: 01 July 2000
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The Lynching of Cleo Wright
Journal Article The Lynching of Cleo Wright Get access Capeci Dominic J.Jr., The Lynching of Cleo Wright. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 290 pp. $29.95. Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer Evergreen State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 319–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113870 Published: 01 July 2000
Rough Justice
Wisconsin’s Last Decade of Lynching, 1881–91
Historians have devoted much analysis to the lynchings that occurred in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern United States, and some to the lynchings that occurred in western states and territories. By comparison, the lesser but nonetheless significant amount of mob violence that occurred in the Midwest has gone relatively unexamined. This essay explores the lynching violence that occurred in the late nineteenth century i…
Lynching in America
Lynching in America: A History in Documents Get access Waldrep Christopher, ed. Lynching in America: A History in Documents. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xxii, 281 pp. $24.00. Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 454–455, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039563 Pu…
Rough Justice
Journal Article Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947 Get access Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947. By Pfeifer Michael J.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x + 245 pp. Maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Stephen J. Leonard Stephen J. Leonard Metropolitan State College of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly,…
Rough Justice
The Body in the Reservoir
like Tanner, who belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, stressed not theological understanding but actual human experience of the divine (as in Annunciation, 1898).He developed his own "visual theology" (p.49) that emphasized the individual's active response to God's presence.And like Eakins, Tanner found religious subjects and realism entirely compatible.As Tanner turned from depiction of contemporary African Americans (such as the …
Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country
Journal Article Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910 Get access Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910. Law in the American West Series. By Ellis Mark R.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xix + 262 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, CAN$56.25, £29.00.) Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer Jo…
The roots of rough justice
Analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history, scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers. Pfeifer offers new insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era and examines the antecedents of American lynching in an early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage. He addresses the tran…
Kidada E. Williams. They Left Great Marks on Me
Lynching Beyond Dixie
In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This book fills this gap by illuminating the…
Tameka Bradley Hobbs. Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
Tameka Bradley Hobbs’s well-written and well-researched book offers in-depth case studies of four lynchings that occurred in Florida in the early to mid-1940s. Drawing on extensive research amassed from state and federal governmental archives, newspapers, and interviews with descendants of the lynching victims, Hobbs carefully reconstructs these episodes of racially motivated collective murder. Throughout Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racia…
Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Banzai! And the Others Die—Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking
In this chapter, Frank Jacob carefully examines another significant manifestation of collective violence in Asian history: the mass atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against Chinese in the Rape of Nanking in 1937 and 1938. First analyzing at length the contentious historiography and historical evidence surrounding this pivotal episode of collective violence performed by agents of the Japanese state, Jacob then closely examines the violenc…
Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. ’s Seminole Burning and the Historiography of the Lynching of Native Americans
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Silent Shore
Journal Article The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State Get access The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State. By Charles L Chavis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. xiv, 288 pp. $29.95.) Michael J Pfeifer Michael J Pfeifer John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, New Y…
Philip Dray. A Lynching at Port Jervis
The Violent World of Broadus Miller
History (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Race, History, and American Society (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)