American Pogroms

Byman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-778876-9 (ISBN)

Noch nicht erschienen (ca. September 2026)
Portofrei ab CHF 40
Auch auf Rechnung

Artikel merken

Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms chronicles the causes and consequences of two centuries of mob violence in American history, highlighting exactly what's at stake when we allow leaders to legitimate violence and the mob to rule. From its beginnings, elements of the majority population of the United States indiscriminately
attacked and terrorized minority communities. In some cases, mob violence seemed a near-constant part of a state or region's history, while in others it was a brief, horrific spasm that perpetrators--but not victims--quickly forgot. In
American Pogroms, terrorism expert Daniel Byman argues that there is a word for this type of communal violence: pogrom. Although pogroms are historically associated with the orchestrated campaigns of anti-Jewish violence in Tsarist Russia, Byman asserts that pogroms have been an all-too-frequent feature of American history. Tracing two centuries of communal violence, Byman recounts cases of attacks against American religious minorities such as Catholics and Mormons, the killing of
thousands of ethnic Mexicans in Texas, the murder and wholesale expulsion of Chinese workers from the American West, and the repeated attacks on the Black community that killed thousands and enabled decades of
brutal discrimination. In all these cases, pogroms helped cement a system of injustice that left religious, ethnic, and racial minorities politically and economically marginalized. While the idea of mob violence now strikes most Americans as unthinkable, Byman warns that increased polarization and selective news consumption in recent years has coarsened discourse and legitimized violence, raising the risk that at least some violence will return. A broad-ranging synthesis
of how and why majorities have so frequently resorted to community-level terrorism to cement their power, American Pogroms illustrates the outsized role that pogroms have played in securing the
dominance of majority populations in the United States.

Daniel Byman is a Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Director of the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was previously a US government analyst, staff member on the 9/11 Commission, Senior Fellow at Brookings, and a Senior Advisor to the State Department. A widely published and nationally recognized expert on terrorism, Byman is the author of ten books, including Spreading Hate and Road Warriors.

Introduction

1. A Map of Hate

2. The Mormon Wars

3. Saying No to "Popery"

4. Civil War in the City: The New York Draft Riots

5. "A Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party": The Failure of Reconstruction

6. The Chinese Must Go

7. "This Is a White Man's Country": The Wilmington Coup

8. Border Wars in Texas (1910-1919)

9. "If We Must Die": Racial Violence in the Early Twentieth Century

10. Bloodshed in the Magic City

11. Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of Pogroms

12. A Better Country

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-778876-9 / 0197788769
ISBN-13	978-0-19-778876-9 / 9780197788769
Zustand	Neuware