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Author:   Hall
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.678kg
ISBN:  

9780195081800

ISBN 10:   0195081803
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   16 May 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Social and Institutional Foundations of Early American Law Law, Society, and Economy in Colonial America The Law in Revolution and Revolution in the Law Law, Politics, and the Rise of the American Legal System The Active State and the Mixed Economy: 1789-1880 Common Law, Jurists, and American Values: Continuity and Change, 1780-1880 Race and the Nineteenth-Century Law of Domestic Relations The Nineteenth-Century Law of Personal Status The Dangerous Classes and the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Justice System Law, Industrialization, and the Beginnings of the Regulatory State: 1860-1920 The Professionalization of the Legal Culture: Bench and Bar, 1860-1920 The Judicial Response to Industrialization: 1860-1920 Cultural Pluralism, Total War, and the Formation of Modern Legal Culture: 1917-1945 The Great Depression and the Emergence of Liberal Legal Culture Contemporary Law and Society The Imperial Judiciary and Contemporary Social and Cultural Change Epilogue: More like a River than a Rock Notes Glossary Bibliographical Essay Table of Cases Index

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How to make an excellent book even better? Oxford University Press and Peter Karsten have found the prefect way. Karsten has improved upon Kermit Hall's fine American legal history textbook, The Magic Mirror (1989), by adding to the second edition mini-essays on customary and local law, new materials about alternative dispute resolution, and the latest scholarship on Native American law, immigration law, and popular resistance to law enforcement. Now fully up to date, but still as readable and teachable as ever, the second edition of The Magic Mirror will please both teachers and students. --Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia<br> Peter Karsten has added depth of explanation, new scholarship, and expert editorial crafting to the superb work of Kermit Hall. This new edition gives students far more understandable insights into American legal history and grounds historical interpretation in primary sources and thoughtful scholarship. --Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton<br> Peter Karsten has judiciously revised the late Kermit Hall's Magic Mirror to incorporate the best scholarship of the past two decades and to bring the book's coverage up to date, without sacrificing the brevity or the lucidity of the original. This new edition will be welcomed by teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses, and indeed by anyone who wants to read a short survey of American legal history. --Stuart Benner, UCLA<br>

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The late Kermit L Hall was President of SUNY Albany. Peter Karsten is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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