Recasting American Liberty - Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920

Klappentext This 2001 book considers the role railroads and streetcars played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty in America. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Body: Accidental Injury: 1. The railway journey (i): the technological transformation; 2. Gendered journeys (i): physical vulnerability; 3. The law of accidental injury; Junction: pain and suffering; Part II. Mind and Body: Nervous Shock: 4. The railway journey (ii): the psychological transformation; 5. Gendered journeys (ii): psychological vulnerability; 6. The law of nervous shock; Junction: truth, legal storytelling, and the performance of injury; Part III. Person: Racial Segregation: 7. The Railway journey (iii): the spatial transformation; 8. Gendered journeys (iii): status vulnerability; 9. The law of racial segregation.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Young Welke, Barbara Young (University of Minnesota) Welke
• Assisted by: Christopher Tomlins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2001
• EAN: 9780521640206
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64020-6
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous