| Author/Contributor(s): | Tolnay, Stewart E ; Beck, E M |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Date: | 01/01/1995 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Among their surprising findings: lynching responded to fluctuations in the price of cotton, decreasing in frequency when prices rose and increasing when they fell.