Gold mountain turned to dust : essays on the legal history of the Chinese in the nineteenth-century American West /

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This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author's lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West--from California to Montana to New Mexico--serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wunder, John R. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Zhu, Liping (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2018]
Temas:
1800-1899
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Law > West (U.S.) > History.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Law.
West United States.
History.
Internet resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anti-Chinese violence in the American West, 1850-1910
  • Chinese in trouble : criminal law and race on the trans-Mississippi West frontier
  • People v. Hall (Cal, 1854) revisited
  • The Chinese and California : a torturous legal relationship
  • Chinese laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Pacific Northwest
  • The Chinese and the courts in the Pacific Northwest : justice denied?
  • The courts and the Chinese in frontier Idaho
  • Law and Chinese in frontier Montana
  • Southwest
  • Law and the Chinese on the Southwest frontier, 1850s-1902
  • Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun : a turning point in Chinese legal relationships in the trans-Mississippi West.

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