A companion to American legal history [electronic resource] / edited by Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy.

A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century. Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal historyReflects the current sta...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Other Authors: Hadden, Sally E., Brophy, Alfred L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicester : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Series:Blackwell companions to American history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Sally E Hadden, Alfred L Brophy
  • Chronological overviews. Reconsidering the seventeenth century: legal history in the Americas / Elizabeth Dale
  • What's done and undone: Colonial American legal history, 1700-1775 / Sally E Hadden
  • 1775-1815 / Ellen Holmes Pearson
  • The antebellum era through Civil War / Alfred L Brophy
  • Beyond classical legal thought: law and governance in postbellum America, 1865-1920 / Roman J Hoyos
  • American legal history, 1920-1970 / Christopher W Schmidt
  • Individuals and groups. Native Americans / Christian McMillen
  • African Americans in slavery / Thomas J Davis
  • African Americans in freedom / James Campbell
  • Women's legal history / Felice Batlan
  • Families / David S Tanenhaus
  • Who belongs? Immigrants and the law in American history / Allison Brownell Tirres
  • The legal profession / Mark E Steiner
  • Subject areas. Law and the economy of Early America: markets, institutions of exchange, and labor / Christine Desan
  • Law and the economy in the United States, 1820-2000 / Harwell Wells
  • Law and labor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Deborah Dinner
  • Siting the legal history of poverty: below, above, and amidst / Felicia Kornbluh, Karen Tani
  • Taxes / Robin L Einhorn
  • Law and the administrative state / Joanna L Grisinger
  • Law and religion / Steven K Green
  • Legal history and the military / Elizabeth L Hillman
  • Criminal law and justice in America / Elizabeth Dale
  • Intellectual property / Steven Wilf
  • Legal thought. Law and literature / Jeannine Marie DeLombard
  • Legal thought from Blackstone to Kent and Story / Steven J Macias
  • American jurisprudence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / James D Schmidt
  • Critical legal studies / John Henry Schlegel
  • The international context: an imperial perspective on American legal history / Clara Altman
  • Index.