Michelle A. Mckinley

Fractional Freedoms

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fractional Freedoms examines paths to liberty forged in the slaveowning household, and legal claims brought by slaves in colonial Lima.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781107168985
• ISBN-10: 1107168988
• Artikelnr.: 45571466

Autorenporträt

Michelle A. McKinley is the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon Law School. She has published extensively on public international law, globalization, and legal history, particularly the law of slavery. McKinley has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Newberry Library, and was fellow in residence at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs program. She was awarded the Surrency Prize by the American Society for Legal History, and the Lidia Parra Jahn award for her article 'Illicit Intimacies'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Litigating liberty
2. Conjugal chains
3. Dangerous dependencies
4. Freedom at the font
5. Till death do us part
6. Buyer beware
7. Conclusion.