Title: The magic mirror :
Authors: Hall, Kermit L.,
Date: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: ix, 404 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC class: K
Contents: Social and Institutional Foundations of Early American Law -- Law, Society, and Economy in Colonial America -- The Law in Revolution and Revolution in the Law -- Law, Politics, and the Rise of the American Legal System -- The Active State and the Mixed Economy: 1789-1861 -- Common Law, the Economy, and the Onward Spirit of the Age: 1789-1861 -- Race and the Nineteenth-Century Law of Personal Status -- The Nineteenth-Century Law of Domestic Relations -- The Dangerous Classes and the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Justice System -- Law, Industrialization, and the Beginnings of the Regulatory State: 1860-1920 -- The Professionalization of the Legal Culture: Bench and Bar, 1860-1920 -- The Judicial Response to Industrialization: 1860-1920 -- Cultural Pluralism, Total War, and the Formation of Modem Legal Culture: 1917-1945 -- The Great Depression and the Emergence of Liberal Legal Culture -- Contemporary Law and Society -- The Imperial Judiciary and Contemporary Social Change -- Epilogue: More like a River than a Rock
Notes: Includes index.