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

Considers the role railroads and streetcars played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty in America.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Young Welke
• Assisted by: Christopher Tomlins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2011
• EAN: 9780521649667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64966-7
• No. of pages: 426
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 688 g
• 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