Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States

by Barbara Young Welke

Book Overview

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of 'American citizenship'. Welke draws on that wealth of historical, legal, and theoretical scholarship to offer a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and citizenship from the founding of the United States through the 1920s. Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521152259
• ISBN13: 9780521152259
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"