Global Lynching and Collective ViolenceOften considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia where a long history of public violence now twines