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The magic mirror : law in American history
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The magic mirror : law in American history

Kermit L. Hall

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Previous ed.: 1989 : by Kermit L. Hall.

Contents

Social and institutional foundations of early American law
Law, society, and economy in colonial America
The law in revolution and revolution in the law
Law, politics, and the rise of the american legal system
The active state and the mixed economy: 1789-1861
Common law, jurists, and american values: continuity and change, 1780-1880
Race and the nineteenth-century law of personal status
The nineteenth-century law of domestic relations
The dangerous classes and the nineteenth-century criminal justice system
Law, industrialization, and the beginnings of the regulatory state: 1860-1920
The professionalization of the legal culture: bench and bar, 1860-1920
The judicial response to industrialization: 1860-1920
Cultural pluralism, total war, and the formation of modern legal culture: 1917-1945
The great depression and the emergence of liberal legal culture
Contemporary law and society
The imperial judiciary and contemporary social and cultural change.

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