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The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume 1

The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume 1 Early America (1580-1815)

Author: Christopher Tomlins; Michael Grossberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521803052
Published In: April 2008
Format: Hardback
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One of the most exciting recent trends in the history of American law has been the proliferation of scholarship on law in early America. Volume I of the Cambridge History of Law in America reaps the advantage of this proliferation, beginning the account of law in America with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic.

The book discusses the place of law in regard to colonization and empire, indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction, population migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the creation of social institutions, and revolutionary politics. American legal history long treated the era of the founding of the republic and the early nineteenth century as the beginning of American law. Volume I disputes that tendency and corrects it. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

Contents:: 1. Law, colonization, legitimation and the European background; Anthony Pagden; 2. The law of Native Americans to 1815; Katherine A. Hermes; 3. English settlement and local governance; Mary Sarah Bilder; 4. Legal communications and imperial governance: British North America and Spanish America compared; Richard J. Ross; 5. Regionalism in early American law; David Thomas Konig; 6. Penality and the colonial project: crime, punishment and the regulation of morals in early America; Michael Meranze; 7. Law, population, labor; Christopher Tomlins; 8. The fragmented laws of slavery in the colonial and revolutionary eras; Sally E. Hadden; 9. The transformation of domestic law; Holly Brewer; 10. Law and religion in colonial America; Mark McGarvie and Elizabeth Mensch; 11. The transformation of law and economy in early America; Bruce H. Mann; 12. Law and commerce, 1580-1815; Claire Priest; 13. Law and the origins of the American Revolution; Jack P. Greene; 14. Confederation and constitution; Jack N. Rakove; 15. The consolidation of the early Federal sytem, 1791-1812; Saul Cornell and Gerald Leonard; 16. Magistrates, common law lawyers, legislators: the three legal systems of British America; James A. Henretta.