Magic Mirror Law in American History

Name: Magic Mirror Law in American History
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ISBN: 9780195081800

ISBN-10: 0195081803

ISBN-13: 9780195081800

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Kermit L. Hall, Peter Karsten

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Now in a new edition with extensive updates by Peter Karsten, The Magic Mirror chronicles American law from its English origins to the present. It offers comprehensive treatment of twentieth-century developments and sets American law and legal institutions in the broad context of social,economic, and political events, weaving together themes from the history of both constitutional and private law. This edition of The Magic Mirror features additional coverage of resistance to law through U.S. history, the customary law of self-governing bodies, and Native Americans. It also hasupdated coverage for law in society, the legal implications of social change in areas such as criminal justice, the…

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List price: $119.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 1.716



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Introduction



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


Epilogue: More Like a River than a Rock


Notes


Glossary


Bibliographical Essay


Table of Cases


Index