Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. The emergence of the concept of state neglect, 1867?73; 3. The civil/social distinction: an intramural Republican debate; 4. The birth of state action doctrine, 1874?6; 5. A surviving sectional context, 1876?91; 6. The Civil Rights Cases and the language of state neglect; 7. Definitive judicial abandonment and residual expressions, 1896?1909; 8. A loss of context: the rise of distorted knowledge about state action doctrine; 9. Conclusion.