The Southern Roots of the Reapportionment Revolution
Book Title
Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9-780-8203-4499-7
Publication Date
4-2013
Editors
Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter
Description
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to take up the study of southern legal history.
Contributors to Signposts explore a wide range of subjects related to southern constitutional and legal thought, including real and personal property, civil rights, higher education, gender, secession, reapportionment, prohibition, lynching, legal institutions such as the grand jury, and conflicts between bench and bar. A number of the essayists are concerned with transatlantic connections to southern law and with marginalized groups such as women and native peoples. Taken together, the essays in Signposts show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.
Contributors: Alfred L. Brophy, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Laura F. Edwards, James W. Ely Jr., Tim Alan Garrison, Sally E. Hadden, Roman J. Hoyos, Thomas N. Ingersoll, Jessica K. Lowe, Patricia Hagler Minter, Cynthia Nicoletti, Susan Richbourg Parker, Christopher W. Schmidt, Jennifer M. Spear, Christopher R. Waldrep, Peter Wallenstein, Charles L. Zelden.
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
First Page
393
Last Page
416
Disciplines
American Politics | Political Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Zelden, Charles. (2013). The Southern Roots of the Reapportionment Revolution. In Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter (Eds.), Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History (393-416).
Additional Information
Chapter in Part III: Constitutionalism, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties