Signposts : New Directions in Southern Legal History /

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In this book, the editors have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal herita...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Minter, Patricia H. (Patricia Hagler) (Editor ), Hadden, Sally E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Law.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Droit > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Law > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter
  • In my mother's house : dowry property and female inheritance patterns in Spanish Florida / Susan Richbourg Parker
  • The law and order campaign in New Orleans, 1763-1765 : a comparative view / Thomas N. Ingersoll
  • "Using the faculties conceded to her by law" : slavery, law, and agency in Spanish New Orleans, 1763-1803 / Jennifer M. Spear
  • South Carolina's grand jury presentments : the eighteenth-century experience / Sally E. Hadden
  • Guarding republican liberty : St. George Tucker and judging in federal Virginia / Jessica K. Lowe
  • The shades of loyalty : Elisha W. Chester and the Cherokee removal / Tim Alan Garrison
  • The material conditions of dependency : the hidden history of free women's control of property in the early nineteenth-century South / Laura F. Edwards
  • Democracy, and lynching, in America / Christopher R. Waldrep
  • The world made by laws and the laws made by the world of the old South / Alfred L. Brophy
  • Peaceful revolution and popular sovereignty : reassessing the constitutionality of Southern secession / Roman J. Hoyos
  • Strategic litigation and the death of reconstruction / Cynthia Nicoletti
  • The homestead exemption and Southern legal culture / James W. Ely Jr
  • A place for themselves in the modern world : Southern women and alcohol in the age of prohibition, 1912-1933 / Lisa Lindquist Dorr
  • Race, property, and negotiated space in the American South : a reconsideration of Buchanan v. Warley / Patricia Hagler Minter
  • Race, law, and southern public higher education, 1860s-1960s / Peter Wallenstein
  • The southern roots of the reapportionment revolution / Charles L. Zelden
  • Defending the right to discriminate : the libertarian challenge to the civil rights movement / Christopher W. Schmidt.

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