The magic mirror
Subtitle: law in American history
By: Kermit L. Hall and Peter Karsten.
Contributors: Karsten, Peter.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195081794; 9780195081800
Subjects: Law -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Social and institutional foundations of early American law; value: Law, society, and economy in colonial America; value: The law in revolution and revolution in the law; value: Law, politics, and the rise of the american legal system; value: The active state and the mixed economy: 1789-1861; value: Common law, jurists, and american values: continuity and change, 1780-1880; value: Race and the nineteenth-century law of personal status; value: The nineteenth-century law of domestic relations; value: The dangerous classes and the nineteenth-century criminal justice system; value: Law, industrialization, and the beginnings of the regulatory state: 1860-1920; value: The professionalization of the legal culture: bench and bar, 1860-1920; value: The judicial response to industrialization: 1860-1920; value: Cultural pluralism, total war, and the formation of modern legal culture: 1917-1945; value: The great depression and the emergence of liberal legal culture; value: Contemporary law and society; value: The imperial judiciary and contemporary social and cultural change.