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Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860
Häftad, 1979
416 kr
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In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting …
Prison and Plantation
Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878
Häftad, 2012
591 kr
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This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimise the role of …
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
Essex County, 1629-1692
Häftad, 1981
591 kr
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Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced …
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Statesman of the Old Republic
Häftad, 1986
671 kr
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The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican …
Law School
Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s
Häftad, 1987
567 kr
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In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the …
Governing the Hearth
Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1988
671 kr
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Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes …
Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Häftad, 1989
518 kr
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In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture …
Protecting the Best Men
An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel
Häftad, 1990
687 kr
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From the trial of John Peter Zenger in the eighteenth century to the recent libel cases of William Westmoreland and Ariel Sharon, political defamation cases have attracted considerable attention. As Norman Rosenberg shows, cases like these raise fundamental questions about how much criticism of …
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Häftad, 1995
703 kr
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Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the …
Laws Harsh As Tigers
Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
Häftad, 1995
463 kr
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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. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government …
People's Welfare
Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1996
489 kr
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Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare , William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long …
Law, Land, and Family
Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800
Häftad, 1997
515 kr
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Eileen Spring presents an interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she argues that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class inheritance was …
Reconstructing the Household
Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
Häftad, 1998
544 kr
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In Reconstructing the Household , Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that …
Farmer's Benevolent Trust
Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
Häftad, 1998
515 kr
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Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self- sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization …
Republic According to John Marshall Harlan
Häftad, 1999
531 kr
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Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, ""Our Constitution is color-blind."" But in other judicial decisions--as well as in some areas of his life--Harlan's actions …
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Häftad, 1999
616 kr
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This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. …
English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381
A Transformation of Governance and Law
Häftad, 2001
1008 kr
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Robert Palmer's pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. The Black Death killed one-third of the English population …
Mormon Question
Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2002
500 kr
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How the battle over polygamy redefined religious liberty in America; From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the ""Mormon question"" debated central questions of …
Neighbors and Strangers
Law and Community in Early Connecticut
Häftad, 2001
587 kr
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Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly …
Great Catastrophe of My Life
Divorce in the Old Dominion
Häftad, 2002
515 kr
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Stories of marital tragedy and legal struggle in the antebellum South; From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought …
Invention of Free Labor
The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Häftad, 2002
587 kr
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Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the …
Legalist Reformation
Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980
Häftad, 2003
486 kr
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Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes …
English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield
Av James Oldham
Häftad, 2004
567 kr
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In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, 1756-1788, was the dominant judicial force behind these developments. In this abridgment of his …
Crimes Against Children
Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
Häftad, 2005
460 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the …
American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science
Häftad, 2011
703 kr
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John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to …
Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
Häftad, 2006
591 kr
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A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and …
Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Häftad, 2007
518 kr
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America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over …
Constituting Empire
New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830
Häftad, 2008
437 kr
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In his paradigm-shifting analysis, Daniel J. Hulsebosch captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown as the source of legitimate authority, also led to the …
Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I
Av James Oldham
Häftad, 2012
1127 kr
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Using voluminous trial notes and previously unexplored documents, Oldham provides a reappraisal of the judicial career of Lord Mansfield, chief justice of the Court of King's Bench in England from 1756 to 1799. In this two-volume work, he presents important biographical information about Mansfield …
Transformation of Criminal Justice
Philadelphia, 1800-1880
Häftad, 2014
632 kr
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Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system - dominated by the police and public prosecutor - that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in …
