The creation of American common law, 1850-1880 technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship /

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Autor Principal: Schweber, Howard H.
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.