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The creation of American common law, 1850-1880 : technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship /
This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern and southern courts. The process of legal development, and the form the basic analytical categories of American law came to have, are explained as the products of different responses to the challenge of new industrial technologies, particularly railroads. The nature of those responses was dictated by the ideologies that accompanied the social, political, and economic orders of the two regions. American common law, ultimately, is found to express an emerging model of citizenship, appropriate to modern conditions. As a result, the process of legal development provides an illuminating perspective on the character of American political thought in a formative period of the nation. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511166265 9780511166266 9780511164330 0511164335 9780521824620 0521824621 0511184409 9780511184406 9780511509919 051150991X 1280437405 9781280437403 9786610437405 6610437408 1107146437 9781107146433 0511313004 9780511313004 0511165137 9780511165139 9780521158183 0521158184 |