Signposts new directions in Southern legal history / edited by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter.

Other author Hadden, Sally E.
Other author Minter, Patricia H. (Patricia Hagler)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Descriptionxiii, 473 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesStudies in the legal history of the South
Contents In my mother's house : dowry property and female inheritance patterns in Spanish Florida / Susan Richbourg Parker -- The law and order campaign in New Orleans, 1763-1765 : a comparative view / Thomas N. Ingersoll -- "Using the faculties conceded to her by law" : slavery, law, and agency in Spanish New Orleans, 1763-1803 / Jennifer M. Spear -- South Carolina's grand jury presentments : the eighteenth-century experience / Sally E. Hadden -- Guarding republican liberty : St. George Tucker and judging in federal Virginia / Jessica K. Lowe -- The shades of loyalty : Elisha W. Chester and the Cherokee removal / Tim Alan Garrison -- The material conditions of dependency : the hidden history of free women's control of property in the early nineteenth-century South / Laura F. Edwards -- Democracy, and lynching, in America / Christopher R. Waldrep -- The world made by laws and the laws made by the world of the old South / Alfred L. Brophy -- Peaceful revolution and popular sovereignty : reassessing the constitutionality of Southern secession / Roman J. Hoyos -- Strategic litigation and the death of reconstruction / Cynthia Nicoletti -- Homestead exemption and Southern legal culture / James W. Ely Jr. -- A place for themselves in the modern world : Southern women and alcohol in the age of prohibition, 1912-1933 / Lisa Lindquist Dorr -- Race, property, and negotiated space in the American South : a reconsideration of Buchanan v. Warley / Patricia Hagler Minter -- Race, law, and southern public higher education, 1860s-1960s / Peter Wallenstein -- The southern roots of the reapportionment revolution / Charles L. Zelden -- Defending the right to discriminate : the libertarian challenge to the civil rights movement / Christopher W. Schmidt.
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LCCN 2012036978
ISBN9780820340340 (hardcover)
ISBN0820340340 (hardcover)
ISBN9780820344997 (paperback)
ISBN0820344990 (paperback)