Beyond the borders of the law : critical legal histories of the North American West /
"In the American imagination "the West" denotes a border--between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer--and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, juri...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : into the void, or the musings and confessions of a redheaded stepchild lost in western legal history and found in the legal borderlands of the North American West / Katrina Jagodinsky
- Enforcing colonial boundaries in the twenty-first century : settler anxiety and the Violence Against Women Act / Sarah Deer
- Race, blood, and belonging : transnational Blackfoot bands and families along the US-Canada border, 1855-1915 / Jeffrey P. Shepherd
- Abortion and intimate borderlands / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
- Legal ambiguities on the ground : Black Californians' land claims, 1848-1870 / Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Ditches and desirability : regulating race through the flow and quality of immigration and the application of western water law in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Tom I. Romero II
- Jurisdictional no man's land : Choctaws, lawyers, and the coal question in Indian Territory / Brian Frehner
- The courtroom as legal borderland : colonial encounters between western and indigenous legal tradition in the courts of the Alaska district, 1902-1903 / Andrea Geiger
- Reforming deportees : imprisonment and immigration control during the 1930s / Kelly Lytle Hernandez
- The specter of compensation : Mexican claims against the United States, 1923-1941 / Allison Powers Useche
- Negotiating race : the legal borderlands of court-ordered desegregation in Denver, Colorado / Danielle R. Olden.