| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 225 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans. |
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Law -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Law. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Internet resources.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Added Author |
Zhu, Liping, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Essays on the legal history of the Chinese in the nineteenth-century American West |
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Essays on the legal history of the Chinese in the 19th century American West |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wunder, John R. Gold mountain turned to dust. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2018] 9780826359384 (DLC) 2018016226 (OCoLC)1031051510 |
| ISBN |
9780826359391 (electronic book) |
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0826359396 (electronic book) |
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9780826359384 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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