Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920Through 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. |
Contents
The Railway Journey The Technological Transformation | 3 |
Gendered Journeys Physical Vulnerability | 43 |
The Law of Accidental Injury | 81 |
Pain and Suffering | 125 |
The Railway Journey The Psychological Transformation | 139 |
Gendered Journeys Psychological Vulnerability | 171 |
The Law of Nervous Shock | 203 |
Truth Legal Storytelling and the Performance of Injury | 235 |
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Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution ... Barbara Young Welke No preview available - 2001 |
Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution ... Barbara Young Welke No preview available - 2001 |
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Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 Jonathan Sperber No preview available - 2005 |