A history of American law / Lawrence M. Friedman.

Author/creator Friedman, Lawrence M., 1930-
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
EditionFourth edition.
Publication InfoOxford, Unitied Kingdom ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Descriptionxxviii, 828 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects

Contents The republic of bees -- Outposts of the law : the frontier and the civil law fringe -- Law and the economy : 1776-1850 -- The law of personal status : wives, paupers, and slaves -- An American law of property -- The law of commerce and trade -- Crime and punishment : and a footnote on tort -- The bar and its works -- Blood and gold : some main themes in the law in the last half of the nineteenth century -- Judges and courts : 1850-1900 -- Procedure and practice : an age of reform -- The land and other property -- Administrative law and regulation of business -- Torts -- The underdogs : 1850-1900 -- The law of corporations -- Commerce, labor, and taxation -- Crime and punishment -- The legal profession : the training and literature of law -- The legal profession : at work -- Leviathan comes of age -- The growth of the law -- Internal legal culture in the twentieth century : lawyers, judges, and law books -- Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law -- Crime and punishment in the twentieth century -- Family law in the twentieth century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 783-796) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Other edition issuedRevision of: Friedman, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Meir), 1930- . A history of American law. 3rd ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. 0684869888.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019007416
ISBN9780190070885 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
ISBN9780190070892 ((pbk.) : alk. paper)

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