Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California /:

"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 tha...

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1. Verfasser: McKanna, Clare V., Jr., 1935-2012
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2002.
Schriftenreihe:Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 148 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index.
ISBN:0874175534
9780874175530

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