Miners' Justice: Migration, Law and Order on the Alaska-Yukon Frontier, 1873-1902

by Thomas Stone

A study in the ethnology of law, Miners' Justice analyzes the evolution of institutions of conflict management, their effectiveness in limiting the potential for intracommunity violence, and their relationship to changing demographic and social conditions in the 19th century Yukon and Alaska goldfields. Anthropologists have given considerable attention to the effects of migration and mobility patterns upon the functioning of legal institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820405779
• ISBN13: 9780820405773
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 308 Pages