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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2013.
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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.