Pamela Brandwein

Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

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Produktbeschreibung

Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781107625914
• ISBN-10: 1107625912
• Artikelnr.: 40555608

Autorenporträt

Pamela Brandwein is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The emergence of the concept of state neglect, 1867-73
3. The civil/social distinction: an intramural Republican debate
4. The birth of state action doctrine, 1874-6
5. A surviving sectional context, 1876-91
6. The Civil Rights Cases and the language of state neglect
7. Definitive judicial abandonment and residual expressions, 1896-1909
8. A loss of context: the rise of distorted knowledge about state action doctrine
9. Conclusion.