| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 696 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online |
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Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Law, Colonization, Legitimation, and the European Background / Anthony Pagden -- The Law of Native Americans, to 1815 / Katherine A. Hermes -- English Settlement and Local Governance / Mary Sarah Bilder -- Legal Communications and Imperial Governance: British North America and Spanish America Compared / Richard J. Ross -- Regionalism in Early American Law / David Thomas Konig -- Penality and the Colonial Project: Crime, Punishment, and the Regulation of Morals in Early America / Michael Meranze -- Law, Population, Labor / Christopher Tomlins -- The Fragmented Laws of Slavery in the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras / Sally E. Hadden -- The Transformation of Domestic Law / Holly Brewer -- Law and Religion in Colonial America / Mark McGarvie and Elizabeth Mensch -- The Transformation of Law and Economy in Early America / Bruce H. Mann -- Law and Commerce, 1580-1815 / Claire Priest -- Law and the Origins of the American Revolution / Jack P. Greene -- Confederation and Constitution / Jack N. Rakove -- The Consolidation of the Early Federal System, 1791-1812 / Saul Cornell and Gerald Leonard -- Magistrates, Common Law Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of British America / James A. Henretta |
| Summary |
Volume one of the 'Cambridge History of Law in America' begins with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American land mass. It follows those processes across 200 years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Law -- United States -- History.
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Law
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grossberg, Michael, 1950-
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Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951-
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| ISBN |
9781139054171 |
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1139054171 |
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9780511466700 |
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0511466706 |
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9781139054171 |
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