A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura F. EdwardsSeries:New Histories of American LawPublish date:2015-01-26Pages:226
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107401341ISBN-10:1107401348UPC:9781107401341Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Legal History, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDN9X4MSS
Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107401341ISBN-10:1107401348UPC:9781107401341Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Legal History, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDN9X4MSS
Edwards, Laura F.: - Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. Her book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South was awarded the American Historical Association's 2009 Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association's...
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