| Description |
xiii, 465 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Social and institutional foundations of early American law -- Law, society, and economy in colonial America -- The law in revolution and revolution in the law -- Law, politics, and the rise of the American legal system -- The active state and the mixed economy : 1789-1861 -- Common law, jurists, and American values : continuity and change, 1780-1880 -- Race and the nineteenth-century law of personal status -- The nineteenth-century law of domestic relations -- The dangerous classes and the nineteenth-century criminal justice system -- Law, industrialization, and the beginnings of the regulatory state : 1860-1920 -- The professionalization of the legal culture : bench and bar, 1860-1920 -- The judicial response to industrialization : 1860-1920 -- Cultural pluralism, total war, and the formation of modern legal culture : 1917-1945 -- The Great Depression and the emergence of liberal legal culture -- Law and society in the Cold War years, 1946-1990 -- The imperial judiciary and contemporary social and cultural change |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1989 : by Kermit L. Hall |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [384]-414) and index |
| Subject |
Law -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Karsten, Peter.
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| LC no. |
2008010845 |
| ISBN |
9780195081794 |
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019508179X |
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9780195081800 |
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0195081803 |
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