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The Resource Making legal history : essays in honor of William E. Nelson, edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein

Making legal history : essays in honor of William E. Nelson, edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein

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One of the academy's leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning books have blazed new trails for historians with their substantive arguments and the scope and depth of Nelson's exploration of primary sources. Nelson was the first legal scholar to use early American county court records as sources of legal and social history, and his work (on legal history in England, colonial America, and New York) has been a model for generations of legal historians. This book collects ten essays exemplifying and explaining the process of identifying and interpreting archival sources<U+0127> �the foundation of an array of methods of writing American legal history. The essays presented here span the full range of American history from the colonial era to the 1980s.Each historian has either identified a body of sources not previously explored or devised a new method of interrogating sources already known.The result is a kaleidoscopic examination of the historian's task and of the research methods and interpretative strategies that characterize the rich, complex field of American constitutional and legal history.--
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eng
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ix, 316 pages
Contents
  • The landscape of Faith : religious property and confiscation in the early republic / Sarah Barringer Gordon
  • "It cant be cald stealin" : customary law among civil war soldiers / Thomas C. Mackey
  • Debating the Fourteenth Amendment : the promise and perils of using congressional sources / Daniel W. Hamilton
  • Was the warning of strangers unique to colonial New England? / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger
  • Ambiguities of free labor revisited : the convict labor question in progressive-era New York / Barry Cushman
  • The long, broad, and deep civil rights movement : the lessons of a master scholar and teacher / Tomiko Brown-Nagin
  • Counting as tool of legal history / John Wertheimer
  • A mania for accumulation : the plea of moral insanity in gilded age will contests / Susannah L. Blumenthal
  • The political economy of pain / John Fabian Witt
  • An unexpected antagonist : courts, deregulation, and conservative judicial ideology, 1980-1992 / Reuel Schiller
  • Bibliography of the scholarship of William E. Nelson
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9780814725269
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Making legal history : essays in honor of William E. Nelson
Title
Making legal history
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essays in honor of William E. Nelson
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edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein
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Language
eng
Summary
One of the academy's leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning books have blazed new trails for historians with their substantive arguments and the scope and depth of Nelson's exploration of primary sources. Nelson was the first legal scholar to use early American county court records as sources of legal and social history, and his work (on legal history in England, colonial America, and New York) has been a model for generations of legal historians. This book collects ten essays exemplifying and explaining the process of identifying and interpreting archival sources<U+0127> �the foundation of an array of methods of writing American legal history. The essays presented here span the full range of American history from the colonial era to the 1980s.Each historian has either identified a body of sources not previously explored or devised a new method of interrogating sources already known.The result is a kaleidoscopic examination of the historian's task and of the research methods and interpretative strategies that characterize the rich, complex field of American constitutional and legal history.--
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349.73
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index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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  • 1940-
  • 1956-
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  • Nelson, William Edward
  • Hulsebosch, Daniel Joseph
  • Bernstein, Richard B.
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Making legal history : essays in honor of William E. Nelson, edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
The landscape of Faith : religious property and confiscation in the early republic / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- "It cant be cald stealin" : customary law among civil war soldiers / Thomas C. Mackey -- Debating the Fourteenth Amendment : the promise and perils of using congressional sources / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Was the warning of strangers unique to colonial New England? / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger -- Ambiguities of free labor revisited : the convict labor question in progressive-era New York / Barry Cushman -- The long, broad, and deep civil rights movement : the lessons of a master scholar and teacher / Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- Counting as tool of legal history / John Wertheimer -- A mania for accumulation : the plea of moral insanity in gilded age will contests / Susannah L. Blumenthal -- The political economy of pain / John Fabian Witt -- An unexpected antagonist : courts, deregulation, and conservative judicial ideology, 1980-1992 / Reuel Schiller -- Bibliography of the scholarship of William E. Nelson
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FIEb1763037x
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
ix, 316 pages
Isbn
9780814725269
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
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(OCoLC)836557853
Label
Making legal history : essays in honor of William E. Nelson, edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
The landscape of Faith : religious property and confiscation in the early republic / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- "It cant be cald stealin" : customary law among civil war soldiers / Thomas C. Mackey -- Debating the Fourteenth Amendment : the promise and perils of using congressional sources / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Was the warning of strangers unique to colonial New England? / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger -- Ambiguities of free labor revisited : the convict labor question in progressive-era New York / Barry Cushman -- The long, broad, and deep civil rights movement : the lessons of a master scholar and teacher / Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- Counting as tool of legal history / John Wertheimer -- A mania for accumulation : the plea of moral insanity in gilded age will contests / Susannah L. Blumenthal -- The political economy of pain / John Fabian Witt -- An unexpected antagonist : courts, deregulation, and conservative judicial ideology, 1980-1992 / Reuel Schiller -- Bibliography of the scholarship of William E. Nelson
Control code
FIEb1763037x
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
ix, 316 pages
Isbn
9780814725269
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
(OCoLC)836557853

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