Author: Christopher L. Tomlins
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: amp, culture, history, american, america, institute, legalities
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-05-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807849642
ISBN-13: 9780807849644

This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of "legality" to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, whether as individuals, groups, classes, communities, or states. Addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, family, patriarchy, culture, and dependence, contributors explore the transatlantic context of early American law, the negotiation between European and indigenous le