Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century.

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Laws Harsh As Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law This explores the social and legal history of restrictive immigration policies and their enforcement in the United States between 1891 and 1924.

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century.

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

Because much was left to local. This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War.

This book, the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a social and ...