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Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865 1920

Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865 1920

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Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0521649668
ISBN13: 9780521649667
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 13 2001
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Recasting American Liberty offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and their urban counterpart, streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the 20th century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the corporate power, modern technology and modern urban space.

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