Recasting American Liberty
Recasting American Liberty

Author: Barbara Young Welke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-13

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521649667

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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the dangers of modern life. Gender and race become central to the transformation charted here, as much as the forces of corporate power, modern technology and urban space.

American Liberty Enlightening the World
American Liberty Enlightening the World

Author: Henry Churchill Semple

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781527675797

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Excerpt from American Liberty Enlightening the World: Moral Basis of a League for Peace Does not the horrid insaneness of this war which is bringing devastation to Europe, cry out how much slaughter and ruin can come from defying the highest laws by which the mutual rela tions of states are regulated?' Allocution, Decem ber 4, I 9 I 6. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

American Liberty Enlightening the World: Moral Basis of a League for Peace
American Liberty Enlightening the World: Moral Basis of a League for Peace

Author: Henry Churchill Semple

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-27

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780526122035

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