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The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura F. EdwardsPublish date:2009-04-30Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807859322ISBN-10:080785932XUPC:9780807859322Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:United States, Legal HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC6E8S4SHC

The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored...

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807859322ISBN-10:080785932XUPC:9780807859322Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:United States, Legal HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC6E8S4SHC
Edwards, Laura F.: - Laura F. Edwards is professor of history at Duke University. She is author of Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era and Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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