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

Barbara Young Welke (University of Minnesota)

Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 August 2001
Pages
426
ISBN
9780521649667

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

Barbara Young Welke (University of Minnesota)

Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Recasting American Liberty offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and their urban counterpart, streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the 20th century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans’ journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the corporate power, modern technology and modern urban space.

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