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Author : Wythe Holt
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Total Pages : 735 pages
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Download or read book History Essays in Nineteenth-century American Legal History written by Wythe Holt and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. W. Holt
Publisher : Praeger
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Total Pages : 758 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Nineteenth-Century American Legal History written by C. W. Holt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839892
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Essays in the History of Early American Law written by David H. Flaherty and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of outstanding essays in the history of early American law is designed to meet the demand for a basic introduction to the literature of colonial and early United States law. Eighteen essays from historical and legal journals by outstanding authorities explore the major themes in American legal history from colonial beginnings to the early nineteenth century. Originally published in 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Sally E. Hadden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119711657
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Legal History written by Sally E. Hadden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 history Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field, the key questions, and future research ideas
Author : John R. Wunder
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359396
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain Turned to Dust written by John R. Wunder and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West. The first two essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American West.
Author : Association of American Law Schools
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Total Pages : 890 pages
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Download or read book Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History written by Association of American Law Schools and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald G. Nieman
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ISBN 13 : 9780820314037
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Constitution, Law, and American Life written by Donald G. Nieman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight essays collected in The Constitution, Law, and American Life imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era. Featuring contributions by leading scholars in the field, the volume reflects the freshness and diversity of contemporary legal history. In a wide-ranging essay examining the social, cultural, intellectual, and moral underpinnings of nineteenth-century law, Michael Les Benedict recreates the world view that informed Victorian legal culture and offers a bold reinterpretation of the legal order of the period. Two essays focus on the relationship between slavery and the law. Phillip Shaw Paludan provides a compelling challenge to conventional wisdom about the framers of the Constitution and their attitudes toward slavery, while Paul Finkelman's treatment of the South Bend fugitive slave rescue of 1849 offers a case study of the unbearable pressures that slavery placed on the legal process. Revealing the creative uses of law by white women and African Americans, Norma Basch and Donald G. Nieman show that constitutional principles afforded both groups the means to challenge oppression. These principles, they argue, played a pivotal role in movements that had their genesis in the nineteenth century and have transformed American life in our own time--the women's rights movement and the black struggle for freedom. Two essays focus on the law and social deviance. David T. Courtwright examines the social and legal forces that shaped the legal response to drug addiction. John S. Hughes shows how commitment law afforded ordinary families in pre-Civil War Alabama a means to cope with domestic problems, including spouse abuse, incest, and alcoholism. Exploring the relation between law and urbanization, Harold L. Platt demonstrates that, contrary to received wisdom, reformers of the Gilded Age made creative use of law to cope with the problems created by runaway urban growth and economic development. The individual essays collected in The Constitution, Law, and American Life are fascinating and provocative; taken together, they make a significant contribution to constitutional-legal history of the nineteenth century.
Author : Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814708447
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Making Legal History written by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the academy’s leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning books have blazed new trails for historians with their substantive arguments and the scope and depth of Nelson’s exploration of primary sources. Nelson was the first legal scholar to use early American county court records as sources of legal and social history, and his work (on legal history in England, colonial America, and New York) has been a model for generations of legal historians. This book collects ten essays exemplifying and explaining the process of identifying and interpreting archival sources—the foundation of an array of methods of writing American legal history. The essays presented here span the full range of American history from the colonial era to the 1980s.Each historian has either identified a body of sources not previously explored or devised a new method of interrogating sources already known.The result is a kaleidoscopic examination of the historian’s task and of the research methods and interpretative strategies that characterize the rich, complex field of American constitutional and legal history.
Author : Warren M. Billings
Publisher : Lawbook Exchange, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781616191276
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Magistrates and Pioneers written by Warren M. Billings and published by Lawbook Exchange, Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magistrates and Pioneers collects eighteen essays (five of which are new) by the historian Warren M. Billings. They address the main areas of his research, nineteenth century Louisiana and seventeenth century Virginia. From Opechancanough, a seventeenth-century Indian chief to Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, to Edward Livingston, coauthor of Louisiana's first civil code, to the legendary Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Long, Billings brings to life the forces behind the legal development of these two historically distinctive states. Many of these are classic essays, all are essential to students of American legal history"--Provided by publisher.
Author : James Willard Hurst
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299013639
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-century United States written by James Willard Hurst and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays J. Willard Hurst shows the correlation between the conception of individual freedom and the application of law in the nineteenth-century United States--how individuals sought to use law to increase both their personal freedom and their opportunities for personal growth. These essays in jurisprudence and legal history are also a contribution to the study of social and intellectual history in the United States, to political science, and to economics as it concerns the role of public policy in our economy. The nonlawyer will find in them demonstration of how "technicalities" express deep issues of social values.
Author : Morton J. Horwitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674903714
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 written by Morton J. Horwitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. Horwitz's subtle and sophisticated explanation of societal change begins with the common law, which was intended to provide justice for all. The great breakpoint came after 1790 when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development. The courts spurred economic competition instead of circumscribing it. This new instrumental law flourished as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. The evolving law of the early republic interacted with political philosophy, Horwitz shows. The doctrine of laissez-faire, long considered the cloak for competition, is here seen as a shield for the newly rich. By the 1840s the overarching reach of the doctrine prevented further distribution of wealth and protected entrenched classes by disallowing the courts very much power to intervene in economic life. This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform.
Author : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Historians of Anglo-American Law written by Sir William Searle Holdsworth and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the Professional Tradition of the historical development of English law as it influences the historians of Anglo-American law.
Author : Robert W. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108148417
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Taming the Past written by Robert W. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and the subordination of women. In doing so, lawyers tame the unruly, ugly, embarrassing elements of the past, smoothing them into reassuring tales of progress. In a series of essays and lectures written over forty years, Robert W. Gordon describes and analyses how lawyers approach the past and the strategies they use to recruit history for present use while erasing or keeping at bay its threatening or inconvenient aspects. Together, the corpus of work featured in Taming the Past offers an analysis of American law and society and its leading historians since 1900.
Author : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1886363137
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Essays in Law and History written by Sir William Searle Holdsworth and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, editors of the last four volumes of Holdsworth's History of English Law, this volume presents a selection of seventeen essays by the great legal scholar. Highlights from his long and prolific career, they address such topics as martial law, the English constitution, case law, equity, trusts, libel, law reporting, contracts and land law. "These essays tend to enlarge the mind and to stir the imagination. They are the work of one of the most distinguished of the great line of English legal historians." --Bernard L. Shientag, Columbia Law Review 47 (1947) 1255 WILLIAM S. HOLDSWORTH [1871-1944] was a professor of constitutional law at Cambridge from 1903-1908 and the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1922-1944. He is well-known for his monumental History of English Law (1st ed. 1908) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938). ARTHUR LEHMAN GOODHARD [1891-1978] was an American-born British academic jurist and lawyer. He was editor of the Cambridge Law Journal from 1921 to 1925, editor the Law Quarterly Review in 1926, a professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1931-1951 and the first American to be the master of an Oxford College. HAROLD GREVILLE HANBURY [1898-1993] was a Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1921-1949 and All Souls College, Oxford, from 1949-1964. His works include Modern Equity: Being the Principles of Equity (1935), The Principles of Agency (1952) and The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education (1958).
Author : Daniel W. Hamilton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transformations in American Legal History written by Daniel W. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his career at Harvard, Morton Horwitz changed the questions legal historians ask. In this book, Horwitz's students re-examine legal history from America's colonial era to the late twentieth century. The essays are, like Horwitz, provocative and original as they continue his transformation of American legal history.
Author : Morton J. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 written by Morton J. Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 is considered one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. Since its publication in 1977, it has become the standard source on early nineteenth century American law. In this monumental book, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of our national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He begins with the common law, which emerged during the eighteenth century as the standard doctrine with which to solve disputes in an egalitarian manner. He shows that the turning point in the use of common law came after 1790, when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development and the courts began to spur economic competition instead of circumscribe it. This new instrumental law would flourish during the nineteenth century as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. Horwitz also demonstrates how the emergence of contract law corresponded to the development of economic and legal institutions of exchange. And he discusses how the rise of the market economy influenced legal practices, how contracts became ways to negate preexisting common law duties, and how (to the benefit of entrepreneurs and commercial groups) the courts were able to overthrow earlier anticommercial legal rules. Previous historical studies have viewed law and policy as an accurate reflection of the needs of an undifferentiated society. In The Transformation of American Law, Horwitz successfully challenges this misconception and shows how in the eighty years after the American Revolution, a major change in law took place in which aspects of social struggle turned to legal channels for resolution. Looking into the distribution of wealth and power during this time, Horwitz finds indeed that the change in legal ideology enabled commercial groups to win a disproportionate amount of wealth and power in American society. An accessible account of the history of law, this is a powerful statement on the great role of the legal system in American economic development.
Author : William Nelson
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 1587982803
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (879 download)
Download or read book The Literature of American Legal History written by William Nelson and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republishes articles by two senior legal historians. Besides summarizing what has now become classical literature in the field, it offers illuminating insight into what it means to be a professional legal historian.
