United States, Legal History, Law, American General Law, 1920 

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. 3. The twentieth century and after (1920- ) -- Editor's preface -- 1. Law and state, 1920-2000 : institutional growth and structural change / Daniel R. Ernst -- 2. Legal theory and legal education, 1920-2000 / William W. Fisher III -- 3. The American legal profession, 1870-2000 / Robert W. Gordon -- 4. The courts, Federalism and the Federal Constitution, 1920-2000 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr. -- 5. The litigation revolution / Lawrence M. Friedman -- 6. Criminal justice in the United States / Michael Willrich -- 7. Law and medicine / Leslie J. Reagan -- 8. The Great Depression and the New Deal / Barry Cushman -- 9. Labor's welfare state : defining workers, constructing citizens / Eileen Boris -- 10. Poverty law and income support : from the progressive era to the war on welfare / Gwendolyn Mink, Samantha Ann Majic and Leandra Zarnow -- 11. The rights revolution in the twentieth century / Mark Tushnet -- 12. Race and rights / Michael J. Klarman -- 13. Heterosexuality as a legal regime / Margot Canaday -- 14. Law and the environment / Betsy Mendelsohn -- 15. Agriculture and the state, 1789-2000 / Victoria Saker Woeste -- 16. Law and economic change during the short twentieth century / John Henry Schlegel -- 17. he corporate economy : ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920-2000 / Gregory A. Mark -- 18. Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States / Norman L. Rosenberg -- 19. Making law, making war, making America / Mary L. Dudziak -- 20. Law, lawyers and empire / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth -- Bibliographic essays -- Notes on contributors -- Index. 

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