The Cambridge History of Law in America (3 Volume Paperback Set )

Volume 1.

1. Law, colonization, legitimation and the European background;

2. The law of Native Americans to 1815;

3. English settlement and local governance;

4. Legal communications and imperial governance: British North America and Spanish America compared;

5. Regionalism in early American law;

6. Penality and the colonial project: crime, punishment and the regulation of morals in early America;

7. Law, population, labor;

8. The fragmented laws of slavery in the colonial and revolutionary eras;

9. The transformation of domestic law;

10. Law and religion in colonial America;

11. The transformation of law and economy in early America;

12. Law and commerce, 1580–1815;

13. Law and the origins of the American Revolution;

14. Confederation and constitution;

15. The consolidation of the early Federal system, 1791–1812;

16. Magistrates, common law lawyers, legislators: the three legal systems of British America.

Volume 2.

1. Law and the American state, from the Revolution to the Civil War: institutional growth and structural change;

2. Legal education and legal thought, 1790–1920;

3. The legal profession: from the Revolution to the Civil War;

4. The courts, 1790–1920;

5. Criminal justice in the United States, 1790–1920: a government of laws or men?;

6. Citizenship and immigration law, 1800–1924: resolutions of membership and territory;

7. Federal policy, Western movement and consequences for indigenous people, 1790–1920;

8. Marriage and domestic relations;

9. Slavery, antislavery, and the coming of the Civil War;

10. The civil war and reconstruction;

11. Law, personhood and citizenship in the long nineteenth century: the borders of belonging;

12. Law in popular culture, 1790–1920: the people and the law;

13. Law and religion, 1790–1920;

14. Legal innovation and market capitalism, 1790–1920;

15. Innovations in law and technology, 1790–1920;

16. The laws of industrial organization, 1870–1920;

17. The military in American legal history;

18. The United States and international affairs, 1789–1919;

19. Politics, state building, and the courts, 1870–1920.

Volume 3.

1. Law and state, 1920–2000: institutional growth and structural change;

2. Legal theory and legal education, 1920–2000;

3. The American legal profession, 1870–2000;

4. The courst, Federalism and the Federal Constitution, 1920–2000;

5. The litigation revolution;

6. Criminal justice in the United States;

7. Law and medicine;

8. The Great Depression and the New Deal;

9. Labor's welfare state: defining workers, constructing citizens;

10. Poverty law and income support: from the progressive era to the war on welfare;

11. The rights revolution in the twentieth century;

12. Race and rights;

13. Heterosexuality as a legal regime;

14. Law and the environment;

15. Agriculture and the state, 1789–2000;

16. Law and economic change during the short twentieth century;

17. The corporate economy: ideologies of regulation and antitrust, 1920–2000;

18. Law and commercial popular culture in the twentieth-century United States;

19. Making law, making war, making America; 20. Law, lawyers and empire.