Race and Homicide in Nineteenth Century California (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780874175158
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; Criminal law; Ethnic studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Homicide; Ethnic Sociology; Murder; United States - State & Local - General; History - U.S.; Social conditions; Sociology; California; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - 19th Century; United States - 19th Century/Old West; United States - State & Local - West; Violence in Society; Criminology; 19th century; History; Race relations
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.