The Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume 2: The Long Nineteenth Century (1789–1920)

Volume II of the Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation and development of the American state system, the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal profession, the growing density of legal institutions and their interaction with political and social action, and the development of the modern criminal justice system. We also see how law intertwines with religion, how it becomes ingrained in popular culture, and how it intersects with the worlds of the American military and of international relations The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation. Colonization, the fate of the seaboard's indigenous peoples, the creation of structures of jurisdiction and governance, patterns of imperial communication, the migration (voluntary and involuntary) of peoples and the disciplines to which they were subject, the construction of essential social categories and institutions (families, labor forces, plantations, slavery), economic and commercial activity, religion, the strains and ruptures of empire, revolutionary and constitutional politics: these are the material and imaginative worlds of early American law. All this is encompassed in our first volume."--Jacket "American legal history has long treated the era of the founding of the republic and the early nineteenth century as its proper point of departure. Volume I of this History disputes that tendency, beginning our account of law in America with the very first moments of English colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across 200 years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic ISBN-13: 9780521803069......Page 1 1......Page 2 2......Page 20 3......Page 55 4......Page 87 5......Page 125 6......Page 152 7......Page 187 8......Page 223 9......Page 264 10......Page 299 11......Page 332 12......Page 364 13......Page 406 14......Page 436 15......Page 468 16......Page 502 17......Page 550 18......Page 587 19......Page 623 20......Page 662 21......Page 716 22......Page 840 v. 1. Early America (1580-1815) v. 2. The long nineteenth century (1789-1920) v. 3. The twentieth century and after (1920- ).