A List of Legal Treatises Printed in the British Colonies and the American States Before 1801

A List of Legal Treatises Printed in the British Colonies and the American States Before 1801
Author: Eldon Revare James
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1584771437

James, Eldon Revare. A List of Legal Treatises Printed in the British Colonies and the American States Before 1801. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934. 52 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-143-7. Cloth. $50. * A bibliography of items published in the British colonies and the United States between 1687-1800, organized by date with complete title page transcriptions. During these years most law books were printed for the benefit of the officer or layman who was called upon to act in a legal capacity. Therefore legal manuals, formbooks, pocket-books, young clerk's vade mecums, justice of the peace manuals, the Conductor Generalis and the like provided the legal sources of the time. This bibliography contains occasional annotations regarding the various printings. Originally published in Harvard Legal Essays.

A Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians, Including a Synopsis of Each Treaty

A Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians, Including a Synopsis of Each Treaty
Author: Henry Farr De Puy
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2001
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 1584771631

DePuy, Henry F. A Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians. New York: The Lenox Club, 1917. [108] pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-163-1. Cloth. $50. * Many of the records of the various treaties with the Indians exist only in manuscript. This bibliography locates and describes fifty treaties that were separately printed in small print quantities and thus are exceedingly rare. For each treaty De Puy provides full collation, a brief synopsis of the contents, an illustration, and the location of copies in principal libraries and private collections. See Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 352.

Essays in the History of Early American Law

Essays in the History of Early American Law
Author: David H. Flaherty
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807839892

This collection of outstanding essays in the history of early American law is designed to meet the demand for a basic introduction to the literature of colonial and early United States law. Eighteen essays from historical and legal journals by outstanding authorities explore the major themes in American legal history from colonial beginnings to the early nineteenth century. Originally published in 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton
Author: Alastair Hamilton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 942
Release: 1964-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231089449

Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.

Law and People in Colonial America

Law and People in Colonial America
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421434598

It makes for essential reading.

Articulating America

Articulating America
Author: Rebecca Starr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742520769

In this book seven distinguished historians explain how a national political culture developed in America. A political culture is both the collectivity of a community's values and a mode of behavior--an end as well as a process of obtaining that end which is always changing. Essays by J.G.A. Pocock, Jack Greene, Richard Vernier, Andrew Robertson, Joyce Appleby, Lawrence Goldman, and Rebecca Starr examine issues such as how British institutions and the common law were modified by unique colonial American experiences; how election rituals transformed the American political culture of deference into an expanded, abstract world of electoral opinion knit together by newspapers; how the South developed its own political culture by the end of the eighteenth century that persisted well beyond the Civil War; and more.

The Americans: The Colonial Experience

The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307756483

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.