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: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780195081794; 9780195081800
Subjects: Law -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-414) and index.
Table of contents: title: Social and institutional foundations of early American law; title: Law, society, and economy in colonial America; title: The law in revolution and revolution in the law; title: Law, politics, and the rise of the American legal system; title: The active state and the mixed economy : 1789-1861; title: Common law, jurists, and American values : continuity and change, 1780-1880; title: Race and the nineteenth-century law of personal status; title: The nineteenth-century law of domestic relations; title: The dangerous classes and the nineteenth-century criminal justice system; title: Law, industrialization, and the beginnings of the regulatory state : 1860-1920; title: The professionalization of the legal culture : bench and bar, 1860-1920; title: The judicial response to industrialization : 1860-1920; title: Cultural pluralism, total war, and the formation of modern legal culture : 1917-1945; title: The Great Depression and the emergence of liberal legal culture; title: Law and society in the Cold War years, 1946-1990; title: The imperial judiciary and contemporary social and cultural change.