Gold mountain turned to dust [electronic resource] : essays on the legal history of the Chinese in the nineteenth-century American West / John R. Wunder ; foreword by Liping Zhu.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wunder, John R. (Author)
Other Authors: Zhu, Liping (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Law > West (U.S.) > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Format: Electronic eBook
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.