| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 225 pages) |
| Contents |
Anti-Chinese violence in the American West, 1850-1910 -- Chinese in trouble : criminal law and race on the trans-Mississippi West frontier -- People v. Hall (Cal, 1854) revisited -- The Chinese and California : a torturous legal relationship -- Chinese laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Pacific Northwest -- The Chinese and the courts in the Pacific Northwest : justice denied? -- The courts and the Chinese in frontier Idaho -- Law and Chinese in frontier Montana -- Southwest -- Law and the Chinese on the Southwest frontier, 1850s-1902 -- Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun : a turning point in Chinese legal relationships in the trans-Mississippi West |
| Summary |
This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author's lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West--from California to Montana to New Mexico--serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2018) |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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Law -- West (U.S.) -- History
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Law
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Internet resources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zhu, Liping, writer of foreword.
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| LC no. |
2018017102 |
| ISBN |
9780826359391 |
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0826359396 |
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