Barbara Young Welke, Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States (2010).

Laura Edwards

Barbara Welke’s Law and Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States provides an elegant synthesis of the existing literature on rights and citizenship while also delivering a challenging and original argument of its own. Welke manages this difficult feat by incorporating a wide range of scholarship, beyond the field of legal history, into her analysis.  She then uses that […]