
Recasting American Liberty
Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
2001 m.
Descrição
Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit.
