Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction A Nation of Rights

Name: Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction A Nation of Rights
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ISBN: 9781107401341

ISBN-10: 1107401348

ISBN-13: 9781107401341

Edition: 2015

Authors: Laura F. Edwards

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Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, altering Americans' relationship to the law and allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit of government policy. The results linked Americans to the nation through individual rights,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.088
Language: English

Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University. Her book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South was awarded the American Historical Association's 2009 Littleton–Griswold Prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor Prize for the best book in Southern history.