Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

by Christopher Waldrep

Book Overview

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place.

Although each essay is anchored in the local, several important larger themes emerge across the volume--such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340812
• ISBN13: 9780820340814
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"