The body and the state
Subtitle: habeas corpus and American jurisprudence
By: Cary Federman.
Series: SUNY series in American constitutionalism
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Habeas corpus -- United States -- History.; Habeas corpus -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding habeas corpus; title: Habeas corpus in the new American state, 1789-1915; title: Bodily inventions : the habeas petitioner and the corporation, 1886; title: Habeas corpus as counternarrative : the rise of due process, 1923-1953; title: Confessions and the narratives of violence, 1963-1979; title: Future dangerousness and habeas corpus, 1982-2002; title: Habeas corpus and the narratives of terrorism, 1996-2004.