Sökt på: Serie Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
totalt 42 träffar
The Jurisprudence of Style
In the contemporary domain of American legal thought there is a dominant way in which lawyers and judges craft their argumentative practice. More colloquially, this is a dominant …
Forging Rivals
The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of …
Slavery and Sacred Texts
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The …
Gender Remade
Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil …
Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870–1920
Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial …
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the most influential figures in American law. As a Supreme Court Justice, he wrote foundational opinions about such important constitutional issues …
Before Dred Scott
Before Dred Scott draws on the freedom suits filed in the St Louis Circuit Court to construct a groundbreaking history of slavery and legal culture within the American Confluence, …
A Judgment for Solomon
A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d’Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple’s bitter fight over their son …
Family, Law, and Inheritance in America
Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' …
Recasting American Liberty
Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a …
The Law of the Whale Hunt
Whale oil lit the cities and greased the machines of the Industrial Revolution. In light of its importance, competition between whalers was high. Far from courts and law …
From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial …