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The Racketeer's Progress
Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and …
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
Häftad, 2010
468 kr
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Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory reform or …
Law's Imagined Republic
Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America
Av Steven Wilf
Inbunden, 2010
1274 kr
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Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it …
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
Inbunden, 2010
1077 kr
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Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory reform or …
Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900
Legal Thought before Modernism
Inbunden, 2011
1442 kr
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This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a …
The Bondsman's Burden
An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Av Jenny Bourne Wahl, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - …
The Crisis of Imprisonment
Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized …
Final Freedom
The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
Häftad, 2004
403 kr
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This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish …
A Judgment for Solomon
The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1593 kr
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A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how …
A Judgment for Solomon
The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
557 kr
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A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how …
The Bondsman's Burden
An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Av Jenny Bourne Wahl, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 1997
1995 kr
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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - …
Jim Crow Moves North
The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954
Häftad, 2005
485 kr
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A history of various efforts to desegregate northern schools during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, exploring two dominant themes. The first considers the role of law in accomplishing racial change. Most northern state legislatures enacted legislation after the …
Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920
Inbunden, 1997
1788 kr
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Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. Important free speech controversies, often …
Recasting American Liberty
Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920
Av Barbara Young Welke, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2001
1928 kr
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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke …
Recasting American Liberty
Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920
Av Barbara Young Welke, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2001
653 kr
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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke …
Final Freedom
The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
Av Michael Vorenberg, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2001
1214 kr
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This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish …
Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920
Av David M. Rabban, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 1999
569 kr
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Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. Important free speech controversies, often …
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
Häftad, 2009
619 kr
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The international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism. By the 1930s, Americans feared that big business exceeded the government's capacity to impose accountability, engendering the most aggressive antitrust campaign in history. Meanwhile, big business had …
Law's History
American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History
Inbunden, 2012
1442 kr
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This is a study of the central role of history in late nineteenth-century American legal thought. In the decades following the Civil War, the founding generation of professional legal scholars in the United States drew from the evolutionary social thought that pervaded Western intellectual life on …
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Av Robert J. Steinfeld, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their …
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Av Robert J. Steinfeld, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2001
738 kr
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their …
City of Courts
Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
Av Michael Willrich, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2003
1861 kr
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What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond the individual's control? And what could be more 'progressive' than the belief that the law should aim for social, not …
City of Courts
Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
Av Michael Willrich, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2003
502 kr
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What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond the individual's control? And what could be more 'progressive' than the belief that the law should aim for social, not …
Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004
Inbunden, 2006
1274 kr
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The international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism. By the 1930s, Americans feared that big business exceeded the government's capacity to impose accountability, engendering the most aggressive antitrust campaign in history. Meanwhile, big business had …
The Crisis of Imprisonment
Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941
Inbunden, 2008
1089 kr
Lägg i varukorg
America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized …
The Racketeer's Progress
Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
Inbunden, 2004
1777 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and …
Jim Crow Moves North
The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954
Inbunden, 2005
1341 kr
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A history of various efforts to desegregate northern schools during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, exploring two dominant themes. The first considers the role of law in accomplishing racial change. Most northern state legislatures enacted legislation after the …
Owning Ideas
The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909
Av Oren Bracha
Inbunden, 2016
820 kr
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Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural phenomenon, and an important lever for allocating …
Thresholds of Accusation
Law and Colonial Order in Canada
Inbunden, 2023
1841 kr
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This critical socio-legal history probes pretrial accusations through which colonial criminal law forged social orders for settler-colonialism across western Canada, focusing on Alberta, 1874-1884. Following military intelligence, a Northwest Mounted Police force was established to compel Dominion …
Thresholds of Accusation
Law and Colonial Order in Canada
Häftad, 2026
495 kr
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This critical socio-legal history probes pretrial accusations through which colonial criminal law forged social orders for settler-colonialism across western Canada, focusing on Alberta, 1874-1884. Following military intelligence, a Northwest Mounted Police force was established to compel Dominion …
