| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 148 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Series |
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities |
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Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities.
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| Contents |
Prologue: race and homicide -- Red man: white justice -- Chinese tongs: group solidarity -- Hispanics: justice in a conquered land -- White man: white justice -- Epilogue: prison, homicide rates, and justice |
| Summary |
"In Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, the author presents a portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and downright meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, is an engaging and intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homicide -- California -- History -- 19th century
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Homicide
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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Rassendiskriminierung
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Tötung
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Moorden.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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Rechtspraak.
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| SUBJECT |
California -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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| Subject |
California
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Kalifornien
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0874175534 |
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9780874175530 |
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