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Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California

Title: Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California / Clare V. McKanna, Jr.
Author: McKanna, Clare V., Jr., 1935-2012.
Publication: Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2002.

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Description

xii, 148 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities

Uniform Title

Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.

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.

ISBN

0874175151
9780874175158

LCCN

2002004787

OCLC

ocm49493581
49493581
SCSB-1268092

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library