Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865 1920

by Barbara Young Welke

Book Overview

Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521640202
• ISBN13: 9780521640206
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"