num_pages: 426
description: Through 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.
language: English
title: Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920
titlecomplete: Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
genres: American History, History
ratings_count: 33
series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Littleton-Griswold Prize
publisher: Cambridge University Press