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Table of Contents:

• v. 1. Early America (1580
• 1815)
• Editor's preface
• 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, 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, Gerald Leonard
• 16. Magistrates, common law lawyers, legislators: the three legal systems of British America / James A. Henretta
• Bibliographic essays

• Notes on contributors
• Index
• 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, 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 Reconstruciton / 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
• 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, 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. The 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, Bryant G. Garth
• Bibliographic essays
• Notes on contributors
• Index.

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Contributors:

Grossberg, Michael, 1950-

Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Law — United States — History

Law

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

KF352 .C36 2008

ISBNs:

9780521803052 (hardback)
0521803055 (hardback)
9780521803045 (hardback)
0521803047 (hardback)
9780521803069 (hardback v. 2)
0521803063 (hardback v. 2)
9780521803076 (hardback v. 3)
0521803071 (hardback v. 3)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007017606

OCLC Numbers:

123818334