The creation of American common law, 1850-1880 technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship /
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- North and South
- Illinois: "We were determined to have a rail-road"
- "The memory of man runneth not to the contrary": cases involving damage to property
- "Intelligent beings": cases involving injuries to persons
- The North: Ohio, Vermont, and New York
- Virginia in the 1850s: the last days of planter rule
- The common law of antebellum Virginia: the preservation of status
- Virginia's version of American common law: old wine in new bottles
- The South: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky
- Legal change and social order.