Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) Book

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

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  • Book Description

    Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Recasting American Liberty offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and their urban counterpart, streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the 20th century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the corporate power, modern technology and modern urban space.

  • 0521649668
  • 9780521649667
  • Barbara Young Welke
  • 13 August 2001
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 426
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