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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadden, Sally E.

Minter, Patricia H. (Patricia Hagler)

Series:

Studies in the legal history of the South.

Studies in the legal history of the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Southern States--History.

Law.

Law--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Signposts , Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy , inspired an earlier generation to take up the study of southern legal history. Contributors to Signposts explore a wide range of subjects related to southern

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-46416-5

0-8203-4584-9

OCLC:

839544140