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Law and society in Puritan Massachusetts : Essex County, 1629-1692 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Konig, David Thomas, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [1979]
Colección:UNC Press enduring editions.
Studies in legal history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • English law and Puritan society : the legal and social foundations of order, 1629/1640
  • Real property litigation : the social and economic backgrounds of legal change
  • Outsiders and subgroups : the coordinative functions of the court
  • From communalism to litigation : the elevation of law and legal forms
  • The court and the community : law in a postrevolutionary Puritan society
  • Challenges to the law : the conflict of legal and extra legal methods of social control
  • Law, magic, and disorder : the crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692
  • Epilogue: A contentious and well-ordered people.