United States, Legal History, Law, American General Law 

Cambridge history of law in America 

"American legal history has long treated the era of the founding of the republic and the early nineteenth century as its proper point of departure. Volume I of this History disputes that tendency, beginning our account of law in America with the very first moments of English colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across 200 years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic. Colonization, the fate of the seaboard's indigenous peoples, the creation of structures of jurisdiction and governance, patterns of imperial communication, the migration (voluntary and involuntary) of peoples and the disciplines to which they were subject, the construction of essential social categories and institutions (families, labor forces, plantations, slavery), economic and commercial activity, religion, the strains and ruptures of empire, revolutionary and constitutional politics: these are the material and imaginative worlds of early American law. All this is encompassed in our first volume."--Jacket. 

Content:
v. 2. The long nineteenth century (1789-1920) -- Editor's preface -- 1. Law and the American state, from the Revolution to the Civil War : institutional growth and structural change / Mark R. Wilson -- 2. Legal education and legal thought, 1790-1920 / Hugh C. MacGill and R. Kent Newmyer -- 3. The legal profession : from the Revolution to the Civil War / Alfred S. Konefsky -- 4. The courts, 1790-1920 / Kermit L. Hall -- 5. Criminal justice in the United States, 1790-1920 : a government of laws or men? / Elizabeth Dale -- 6. Citizenship and immigration law, 1800-1924 : resolutions of membership and territory / Kunal M. Parker -- 7. Federal policy, Western movement and consequences for indigenous people, 1790-1920 / David E. Wilkins -- 8. Marriage and domestic relations / Norma Basch -- 9. Slavery, antislavery, and the coming of the Civil War / Ariela Gross -- 10. The Civil War and Reconstruction / Laura F. Edwards -- . 11. Law, personhood and citizenship in the long nineteenth century : the borders of belonging / Barbara Young Welke -- 12. Law in popular culture, 1790-1920 : the people and the law / Nan Goodman -- 13. Law and religion, 1790-1920 / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- 14. Legal innovation and market capitalism, 1790-1920 / Tony A. Freyer -- 15. Innovations in law and technology, 1790-1920 / B. Zorina Khan-- 16. The law of industrial organization, 1870-1920 / Karen Orren -- 17. The military in American legal history / Jonathan Lurie -- 18. The United States and international affairs, 1789-1919 / Eileen P. Scully -- 19. Politics, state building, and the courts, 1870-1920 / William E. Forbath -- Bibliographic essays -- Notes on contributors -- Index. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item catalogued by editor (Grossberg, Michael).