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Hall Kermit L

The magic mirror : Law in American history - Oxford Oxford University Press 1989 - 404p

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;
Law and society in the Cold War years, 1946-1990;
The imperial judiciary and contemporary social and cultural change

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law - History - U S A

Dewey Class. No.: 347.730000 / HAL