Barbara Young Welke

Recasting American Liberty

Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865 1920
Herausgeber: Tomlins, Christopher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2001 book considers the role railroads and streetcars played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 841g
• ISBN-13: 9780521640206
• ISBN-10: 0521640202
• Artikelnr.: 22697622

Inhaltsangabe

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.