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Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California

Title
  1. Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California / Clare V. McKanna, Jr.
Published by
  1. Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2002.
Author
  1. McKanna, Clare V., Jr., 1935-2012.

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Description
  1. xii, 148 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
Series statement
  1. Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities
Uniform title
  1. Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities.
Subject
  1. 1800-1899
  2. Geschichte 1850-1900
  3. Homicide > California > History > 19th century
  4. Homicide
  5. Race relations
  6. Social conditions
  7. Rassendiskriminierung
  8. Tötung
  9. Moorden
  10. Rassenverhoudingen
  11. Rechtspraak
  12. California > Race relations > History > 19th century
  13. California > Social conditions > 19th century
  14. California
  15. Kalifornien
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.