Signposts

New Directions in Southern Legal History
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8203-4499-7
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Studies in the Legal History of the South

<p>In <i>Signposts</i>, 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, <i>Ambivalent Legacy</i>, inspired an earlier generation to take up the study of southern legal history.</p><p>Contributors to <i>Signposts</i> explore a wide range of subjects related to southern constitutional and legal thought, including real and personal property, civil rights, higher education, gender, secession, reapportionment, prohibition, lynching, legal institutions such as the grand jury, and conflicts between bench and bar. A number of the essayists are concerned with transatlantic connections to southern law and with marginalized groups such as women and native peoples. Taken together, the essays in <i>Signposts</i> show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.</p><p>Contributors: Alfred L. Brophy, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Laura F. Edwards, James W. Ely Jr., Tim Alan Garrison, Sally E. Hadden, Roman J. Hoyos, Thomas N. Ingersoll, Jessica K. Lowe, Patricia Hagler Minter, Cynthia Nicoletti, Susan Richbourg Parker, Christopher W. Schmidt, Jennifer M. Spear, Christopher R. Waldrep, Peter Wallenstein, Charles L. Zelden.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hadden, Sally E

Minter, Patricia Hagler

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Alan Garrison is a professor of history at Portland State University. Sally E. Hadden, an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University, is the author of <i>Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas</i> and coeditor of<i>The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History</i>. Paul Finkelman is President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School. He is the author of numerous books, including <i>An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity</i> and <i>Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson</i>. Timothy S. Huebner, L. Palmer Brown Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College, is author of <i>The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy</i> and coeditor, with Kermit L. Hall, of <i>Major Problems in American Constitutional History</i>, second edition. He and Paul Finkelman edit the series Studies in the Legal History of the South. Sally E. Hadden, an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University, is the author of <i>Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas</i> and coeditor of<i>The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History</i>.SALLY E. HADDEN, an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University, is the author of <i>Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas</i> and coeditor of<i>The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History</i>. PATRICIA HAGLER MINTER, associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University is a coauthor of the 2003 edition of <i>Out of Many Lives, Many Stories: Biographies in American History</i>.