Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History
Department
History
Document Type
Book
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Description
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to take up the study of southern legal history.
Contributors to Signposts explore a wide range of subjects related to southern constitutional and legal thought, including real and personal property, civil rights, higher education, gender, secession, reapportionment, prohibition, lynching, legal institutions such as the grand jury, and conflicts between bench and bar. A number of the essayists are concerned with transatlantic connections to southern law and with marginalized groups such as women and native peoples. Taken together, the essays in Signposts show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.
Contributors: Alfred L. Brophy, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Laura F. Edwards, James W. Ely Jr., Tim Alan Garrison, Sally E. Hadden, Roman J. Hoyos, Thomas N. Ingersoll, Jessica K. Lowe, Patricia Hagler Minter, Cynthia Nicoletti, Susan Richbourg Parker, Christopher W. Schmidt, Jennifer M. Spear, Christopher R. Waldrep, Peter Wallenstein, Charles L. Zelden.
Call number in WMU's library
KF352.A2 S57 2013 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
978-0820344997
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
City
Athens
Keywords
Studies in the legal history of the South, Southern States
Disciplines
American Studies | Legal History | United States History
Citation for published book
Hadden, Sally E, and Patricia H. Minter. Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Recommended Citation
Hadden, Sally E. and Minter, Patricia Hagler, "Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History" (2013). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 264.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/264
Comments
Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter are editors.