A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a nation of rights / Laura F. Edwards, Duke University.
2015
KF366 .E318 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a nation of rights / Laura F. Edwards, Duke University.
Author
Edwards, Laura F., author.
ISBN
9781107401341 (paperback)
1107401348 (paperback)
9781107008793 (hardcover)
1107008794 (hardcover)
1107401348 (paperback)
9781107008793 (hardcover)
1107008794 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
KF366 .E318 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
349.7309/034
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Series
New histories of American law.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The United States and its use of the people
The Confederacy and its legal contradictions
Enslaved Americans, emancipation, and the future legal order
The federal government and the reconstruction of the legal order
The possibilities of rights
The power of law and the limits of rights
Conclusion
Bibliographic essay.
The United States and its use of the people
The Confederacy and its legal contradictions
Enslaved Americans, emancipation, and the future legal order
The federal government and the reconstruction of the legal order
The possibilities of rights
The power of law and the limits of rights
Conclusion
Bibliographic essay.