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Beyond the borders of the law : critical legal histories of the North American West /

"In popular culture, the American West is generally thought of as a lawless place, full of gunfights and vigilante justice. In this edited collection, which comes out of the Clements Center's annual symposium program, Katrina Jagodinsky and Pablo Mitchell bring together a cast of scholars...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies (sponsoring body.)
Otros Autores: Jagodinsky, Katrina (Editor ), Mitchell, Pablo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : into the void, or the musings and confessions of a redheaded stepchild lost in western legal history and found in the legal borderlands of the North American west / Katrina Jagodinsky
  • Enforcing colonial boundaries in the twenty-first century : settler anxiety and the Violence Against Women Act / Sarah Deer
  • Race, blood, and belonging : transnational Blackfoot bands and families along the US-Canada border, 1855-1915 / Jeffrey P. Shepherd
  • Abortion and intimate borderlands / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
  • Legal ambiguities on the ground : Black Californians' land claims, 1848-1870 / Dana Elizabeth Weiner
  • Ditches and desirability : regulating race through the flow and quality of immigration and the application of western water law in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Tom I. Romero II
  • Jurisdictional no man's land : Choctaws, lawyers, and the coal question in Indian Territory / Brian Frehner
  • The courtroom as legal borderland : colonial encounters between western and indigenous legal tradition in the courts of the Alaska district, 1902-1903 / Andrea Geiger
  • Reforming deportees : imprisonment and immigration control during the 1930s / Kelly Lytle Hernandez
  • The specter of compensation : Mexican claims against the United States, 1923-1941 / Allison Powers Useche
  • Negotiating race : the legal borderlands of court-ordered desegregation in Denver, Colorado / Danielle R. Olden.