Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California / Clare V. McKanna, Jr.

By:

McKanna, Clare V., Jr, 1935-2012

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanitiesPublication details: Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0874175534
9780874175530

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California.DDC classification:

364.15/2/0979409034 21

LOC classification:

HV6533.C2 M246 2002eb

Other classification:

15.85
MS 3530

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Contents:

Prologue: race and homicide -- Red man: white justice -- Chinese tongs: group solidarity -- Hispanics: justice in a conquered land -- White man: white justice -- Epilogue: prison, homicide rates, and justice.

Review: "In Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, the author presents a portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and downright meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, is an engaging and intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index.

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"In Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, the author presents a portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and downright meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, is an engaging and intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial."--Jacket.

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