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"In Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, the author presents a portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and downright meanness created tensions tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKanna, Clare V., Jr., 1935-2012
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2002.
Colección:Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities.
Temas:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1850-1900.
Homicide > California > History > 19th century.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Homicide
Race relations
Social conditions
Rassendiskriminierung
Tötung
Moorden.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Rechtspraak.
California > Race relations > History > 19th century.
California > Social conditions > 19th century.
Californie > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Californie > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
California
Kalifornien
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, the author presents a portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and downright meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, is an engaging and intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 148 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index.
ISBN:0874175534
9780874175530

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