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Early America (1580–1815)

Series The Cambridge History of Law in America,
Volume 1

Edited by Michael
Grossberg and Christopher
L. Tomlins

Publication Date 2008

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521803052

Hardback ISBN-10 0521803055

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521803052

Overview

One of the most exciting recent trends in the history of American law has
been the proliferation of scholarship on law in early America. Volume I of the
Cambridge History of Law in America reaps the advantage of this proliferation,
beginning the account of law in America with the very first moments of European
colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those
processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of
the American republic. The book discusses the place of law in regard to
colonization and empire, indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction,
population migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the creation
of social institutions, and revolutionary politics. American legal history long
treated the era of the founding of the republic and the early nineteenth century
as the beginning of American law. Volume I disputes that tendency and corrects
it. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the
generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

For more details of the print
book, and how to buy it online, please see Early America (1580–1815) in the
Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The
Cambridge History of Law in America Vol. 1: Early America (1580–1815)

Frontmatter

Law,
Colonization, Legitimation, and the European Background by
Anthony
Pagden

The
Law of Native Americans, to 1815 by Katherine
A. Hermes

English
Settlement and Local Governance by Mary Sarah
Bilder

Legal
Communications and Imperial Governance: British North America and Spanish
America Compared by Richard
J. Ross

Regionalism
in Early American Law by David
Thomas Konig

Penality
and the Colonial Project: Crime, Punishment, and the Regulation of Morals in
Early America by Michael
Meranze

Law,
Population, Labor by Christopher
L. Tomlins

The
Fragmented Laws of Slavery in the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
by Sally E.
Hadden

The
Transformation of Domestic Law by Holly
Brewer

Law
and Religion in Colonial America by Mark
McGarvie and Elizabeth
Mensch

The
Transformation of Law and Economy in Early America by Bruce H.
Mann

Law
and Commerce, 1580–1815 by Claire
Priest

Law
and the Origins of the American Revolution by Jack P.
Greene

Confederation
and Constitution by Jack N.
Rakove

The
Consolidation of the Early Federal System, 1791–1812 by
Saul
Cornell and Gerald
Leonard

Magistrates,
Common Law Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of British
America by James
A. Henretta

Bibliographic
Essays

Notes
on Contributors (in Order of Appearance)

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