Subjects:

Other Jurisdictions , Legal History, USA

Contents:

1. Law and the American state, from the Revolution to the Civil War: institutional growth and structural change

Mark R. Wilson

2. Legal education and legal thought, 1790-1920

Hugh C. MacGill and R. Kent Newmyer

3. The legal profession: from the Revolution to the Civil War

Alfred S. Konefsky

4. The courts, 1790-1920

Kermit L. Hall

5. Criminal justice in the United States, 1790-1920: a government of laws or men?

Elizabeth Dale

6. Citizenship and immigration law, 1800-1924: resolutions of membership and territory

Kunal M. Parker

7. Federal policy, Western movement and consequences for indigenous people, 1790-1920

David E. Wilkins

8. Marriage and domestic relations

Norma Basch

9. Slavery, antislavery, and the coming of the Civil War

Ariela Gross

10. Law, personhood and citizenship in the long nineteenth century: the borders of belonging

Barbara Young Welke

11. Law in popular culture, 1790-1920: the people and the law

Nan Goodman

12. Law and religion, 1790-1920

Sarah Barringer Gordon

13. Legal innovation and market capitalism, 1790-1920

Tony A. Freyer

14. Innovations in law and technology, 1790-1920

B. Zorina Khan

15. The laws of industrial organization, 1870-1920

Karen Orren

16. The military in American legal history

Jonathan Lurie

17. The United States and international affairs, 1789-1919

Eileen P. Scully

18. Politics, state building, and the courts, 1870-1920

William E. Forbath.

Volume II of the Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the 'long' nineteenth century, from the creation of the Republic to the immediate aftermath of the First World War - the century of continental expansion, urban growth, capitalist innovation, industrialization, and war. The crystallization and then, after the Civil War, the reinvention of a distinctly American state system is examined, as is the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal profession, and the growing density of legal institutions.

During this century, law becomes a technique of first resort wherever a person, institution, or government seeks to organize human activity. In this volume we see how law intertwines with religion, how it becomes ingrained in popular culture, and how it intersects with the distinct 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.