The Common Law in Colonial America
volume iii: the chesapeake and new england, 1660-1750
$116.55
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2016
Summary
Forging a Legal Identity: The Common Law in Colonial America, 1660-1750
In the third volume of his projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson explores the fascinating convergence of legal systems in Britain’s thirteen North American colonies.
This volume, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750, unveils how Virginia, initially driven by profit, and Massachusetts, founded on Puritan religious ideals, both embraced t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190465056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0190465050 |
| Author: | William E. Nelson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 155mm x 23mm |
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This volume continues a multi-volume history of the common law in America by our greatest authority on the foundations of the American legal system. Like his other work, it is the product of unmatched meticulous research into the archival record of legal institutions as they affected the lives of ordinary Americans â male and female, white and black, powerful and weak. It is as much a human study as it is an institutional one, and it takes its well-earned place as a classic in legal history. * David Thomas Konig, Professor of Law at Washington University *
About The Author
William E. Nelson
William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History at New York University.
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