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Race And Homicide In Nineteenth-Century California (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)
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by Clare V. Mckanna
Sales Rank: 2010465
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Cover Type: Paperback with 168 pages
Published by: University of Nevada Press August 23, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0874177286
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0874177282
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 9.6 ounces
Jill Dupont, The Journal of San Diego History (September 2005)
"In providing a detailed account of how whites won the struggle for power in the courts, McKanna's work is significant."
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Book Description
Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common, and legal responses varied broadly.
Available now for the first time in paperback, Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California looks at coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other primary and printed sources to analyze patterns of homicide and the state's embryonic justice system. Author Clare V. McKanna discovers that the nature of crimes varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators and victims, as did the conduct and results of trials and sentencing patterns. He presents specific case studies and a vivid portrait of an unruly society in flux.
Enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, this study richly portrays a frontier society where the law was neither omnipotent nor impartial.
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