Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy
Part I Chronological Overviews 5
1 Reconsidering the Seventeenth Century: Legal History in the Americas 7Elizabeth Dale
2 What’s Done and Undone: Colonial American Legal History, 1700−1775 26Sally E. Hadden
3 1775−1815 46Ellen Holmes Pearson
4 The Antebellum Era Through Civil War 67Alfred L. Brophy
5 Beyond Classical Legal Thought: Law and Governance in Postbellum America, 1865−1920 86Roman J. Hoyos
6 American Legal History, 1920−1970 105Christopher W. Schmidt
Part II Individuals and Groups 125
7 Native Americans 127Christian McMillen
8 African Americans in Slavery 152Thomas J. Davis
9 African Americans in Freedom 171James Campbell
10 Women’s Legal History 190Felice Batlan
11 Families 209David S. Tanenhaus
12 Who Belongs? Immigrants and the Law in American History 228Allison Brownell Tirres
13 The Legal Profession 247Mark E. Steiner
Part III Subject Areas 267
14 Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor 269Christine Desan
15 Law and the Economy in the United States, 1820−2000 289Harwell Wells
16 Law and Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 308Deborah Dinner
17 Siting the Legal History of Poverty: Below, Above, and Amidst 329Felicia Kornbluh and Karen Tani
18 Taxes 349Robin L. Einhorn
19 Law and the Administrative State 367Joanna L. Grisinger
20 Law and Religion 387Steven K. Green
21 Legal History and the Military 406Elizabeth L. Hillman
22 Criminal Law and Justice in America 422Elizabeth Dale
23 Intellectual Property 441Steven Wilf
Part IV Legal Thought 461
24 Law and Literature 463Jeannine Marie DeLombard
25 Legal Thought from Blackstone to Kent and Story 484Steven J. Macias
26 American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 506James D. Schmidt
27 Critical Legal Studies 524John Henry Schlegel
28 The International Context: An Imperial Perspective on American Legal History 543Clara Altman
Index 562