Law in American History: Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil WarOxford University Press, 2012 M02 20 - 584 páginas In the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century, G. Edward White takes up the central themes of American legal history from the earliest European settlements through the Civil War. Included in the coverage of this volume are the interactions between European and Amerindian legal systems in the years of colonial settlement; the crucial role of Anglo-American theories of sovereignty and imperial governance in facilitating the separation of the American colonies from the British Empire in the late eighteenth century; the American "experiment" with federated republican constitutionalism in the founding period; the major importance of agricultural householding, in the form of slave plantations as well as farms featuring wage labor, in helping to shape the development of American law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the emergence of the Supreme Court of the United States as an authoritative force in American law and politics in the early nineteenth century; the interactions between law, westward expansion, and transformative developments in transportation and communiciation in the antebellum years; the contributions of American legal institutions to the dissolution of the Union of American states in the three decades after 1830; and the often-overlooked legal history of the Confederacy and Union governments during the Civil War. White incorporates recent scholarship in anthropology, ethnography, and economic, political, intellectual and legal history to produce a narrative that is both revisionist and accessible, taking up the familiar topics of race, gender, slavery, and the treatment of native Americans from fresh perspectives. Along the way he provides a compelling case for why law can be seen as the key to understanding the development of American life as we know it. Law in American History, Volume 1 will be an essential text for both students of law and general readers. |
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2 Law and the Conditions of Agricultural Household Life 17501800 | 56 |
Toward Independence and Republican Government | 109 |
From the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution | 158 |
5 The Supreme Court Emerges | 193 |
6 Law and Entrepreneurship 18001850 | 245 |
The Political Parties Congress and Slavery | 292 |
Slavery the Constitution and the Supreme Court | 338 |
Setting the Stage | 382 |
Legal Issues | 426 |
Notes | 485 |
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