| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 904 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online |
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Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Law and the state, 1920-2000: institutional growth and structural change / Daniel R. Ernst -- Legal theory and legal education, 1920-2000 / William W. Fisher III -- The American legal profession, 1870-2000 / Robert W. Gordon -- The courts, federalism, and the federal constitution, 1920-2000 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr. -- The litigation revolution / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Criminal justice in the United States / Michael Willrich -- Law and medicine / Leslie J. Reagan -- The Great Depression and the New Deal / Barry Cushman -- Labor's welfare state: defining workers, constructing citizens / Eileen Boris -- Poverty law and income support: from the Progressive era to the war on welfare / Gwendolyn Mink, Samantha Ann Majic and Leandra Zarnow -- The rights revolution in the twentieth century / Mark Tushnet -- Race and rights / Michael J. Klarman -- Heterosexuality as a legal regime / Margot Canaday -- Law and the environment / Betsy Mendelsohn -- Agriculture and the state, 1789-2000 / Victoria Saker Woeste -- Law and economic change during the short twentieth century / John Henry Schlegel -- The corporate economy: ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920-2000 / Gregory A. Mark -- Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States / Norman L. Rosenberg -- Making law, making war, making America / Mary L. Dudziak -- Law, lawyers, and empire / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth |
| Summary |
This volume covers the period from 1920 to 2008, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations - in the state, in legal thought and education, in professional organization and life, in American federalism and governance, in domestic affairs and international relations |
| 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 |
9781139054195 |
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1139054198 |
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9780511466724 |
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0511466722 |
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9781139054195 |
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