Signposts new directions in Southern legal history /

Signposts new directions in Southern legal history / edited by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource. - Studies in the legal history of the South .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / In my mother's house : dowry property and female inheritance patterns in Spanish Florida / The law and order campaign in New Orleans, 1763-1765 : a comparative view / "Using the faculties conceded to her by law" : slavery, law, and agency in Spanish New Orleans, 1763-1803 / South Carolina's grand jury presentments : the eighteenth-century experience / Guarding republican liberty : St. George Tucker and judging in federal Virginia / The shades of loyalty : Elisha W. Chester and the Cherokee removal / The material conditions of dependency : the hidden history of free women's control of property in the early nineteenth-century South / Democracy, and lynching, in America / The world made by laws and the laws made by the world of the old South / Peaceful revolution and popular sovereignty : reassessing the constitutionality of Southern secession / Strategic litigation and the death of reconstruction / The homestead exemption and Southern legal culture / A place for themselves in the modern world : Southern women and alcohol in the age of prohibition, 1912-1933 / Race, property, and negotiated space in the American South : a reconsideration of Buchanan volume Warley / Race, law, and southern public higher education, 1860s-1960s / The southern roots of the reapportionment revolution / Defending the right to discriminate : the libertarian challenge to the civil rights movement / Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter -- Susan Richbourg Parker -- Thomas N. Ingersoll -- Jennifer M. Spear -- Sally E. Hadden -- Jessica K. Lowe -- Tim Alan Garrison -- Laura F. Edwards -- Christopher R. Waldrep -- Alfred L. Brophy -- Roman J. Hoyos -- Cynthia Nicoletti -- James W. Ely Jr -- Lisa Lindquist Dorr -- Patricia Hagler Minter -- Peter Wallenstein -- Charles L. Zelden -- Christopher W. Schmidt.



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Law--History.--Southern States


Electronic Books.

KF352 / .S546 2013