Title
Making Legal History : Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson / ed. by R. B. Bernstein, Daniel J. Hulsebosch.
ISBN
9780814708286
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814725269.001.0001 doi
Call Number
KF352 .M35 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
349.73
Summary
One of the academy's leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning books have blazed new trails for historians with their substantive arguments and the scope and depth of Nelson's exploration of primary sources. Nelson was the first legal scholar to use early American county court records as sources of legal and social history, and his work (on legal history in England, colonial America, and New York) has been a model for generations of legal historians. This book collects ten essays exemplifying and explaining the process of identifying and interpreting archival sources-the foundation of an array of methods of writing American legal history. The essays presented here span the full range of American history from the colonial era to the 1980s.Each historian has either identified a body of sources not previously explored or devised a new method of interrogating sources already known.The result is a kaleidoscopic examination of the historian's task and of the research methods and interpretative strategies that characterize the rich, complex field of American constitutional and legal history.
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text file PDF
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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
I. Civil Wars and Legal Rights
1. The Landscape of Faith
2. "It cant be cald stealin'"
3. Debating the Fourteenth Amendment
II. Law and Social Regulation
4. Was the Warning of Strangers Unique to Colonial New England?
5. Ambiguities of Free Labor Revisited
6. The Long, Broad, and Deep Civil Rights Movement
7. Counting as a Tool of Legal History
III. Courts, Judges, and Litigators
8. A Mania for Accumulation
9. The Political Economy of Pain
10. An Unexpected Antagonist
Bibliography of the Scholarship of William E. Nelson, 1963-2012
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
