Law in the American Revolution and the revolution in the law
Subtitle: a collection of review essays on American legal history
By: edited by Hendrik Hartog.
Contributors: Hartog, Hendrik, 1948-
Series: New York University School of Law series in legal history ;; 3
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Law -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Linden studies in American legal history."
Table of contents: title: A great case makes law not revolution / Bruce H. Mann; title: The ordeal by law of Thomas Hutchinson / John Phillip Reid; title: The irrelevance of the declaration / John Phillip Reid; title: Accounting for change in American legal history / Robert W. Gordon; title: Revising the conservative tradition / Stephen B. Presser; title: Losing the world of the Massachusetts Whig / Hendrik Hartog; title: Light in ashes / Peter R. Teachout; title: Distancing oneself from the eighteenth century / Hendrik Hartog.