'Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South (Studies in the Legal History of the South)' (Books)


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Books : Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South (Studies in the Legal History of the South)

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from: University of Georgia Press See Larger Image Amazon.com's Price: $50.00 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 11 to 13 days Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 342.75087 EAN: 9780820322476 ISBN: 0820322474 Label: University of Georgia Press Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 259 Publication Date: 2001-04 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Sales Rank: 2022799 Studio: University of Georgia Press Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Solid work about local and regional contexts of race and law After reading this book, one becomes aware of the importance of boundaries in nineteenth-century southern society. These boundaries include those between blacks and whites, master and slave, men and women, rich and poor, and public and private. The respective essays in this book deal with those boundaries--the way they were constructed, contested, and often breached as the uneasy relationship between race and law developed in nineteenth-century South. They do so, however, at the local level, which ... Read More

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