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From Tavern to Courthouse
Martha J. McNamara
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Description for From Tavern to Courthouse
Hardback. Concise and clearly written, From Tavern to Courthouse reveals the processes by which architects and lawyers crafted new judicial spaces to provide a specialized, exclusive venue in which lawyers could articulate their professional status. Num Pages: 182 pages, 52 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMG; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
During the formative years of the American republic, lawyers and architects, both eager to secure public affirmation of their professional status, worked together to create specialized, purpose-built courthouses to replace the informal judicial settings in which trials took place during the colonial era. In From Tavern to Courthouse, Martha J. McNamara addresses this fundamental redefinition of civic space in Massachusetts. Professional collaboration, she argues, benefitted both lawyers and architects, as it reinforced their desire to be perceived as trained specialists solely concerned with promoting the public good. These courthouses, now reserved exclusively for legal proceedings and occupying specialized locations ... Read more
During the formative years of the American republic, lawyers and architects, both eager to secure public affirmation of their professional status, worked together to create specialized, purpose-built courthouses to replace the informal judicial settings in which trials took place during the colonial era. In From Tavern to Courthouse, Martha J. McNamara addresses this fundamental redefinition of civic space in Massachusetts. Professional collaboration, she argues, benefitted both lawyers and architects, as it reinforced their desire to be perceived as trained specialists solely concerned with promoting the public good. These courthouses, now reserved exclusively for legal proceedings and occupying specialized locations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801873959
SKU
V9780801873959
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About Martha J. McNamara
Martha J. McNamara is an associate professor of history at the University of Maine.
Reviews for From Tavern to Courthouse
McNamara embeds an architectural history of the transformation of civic space in an argument that stresses the causal imperatives of professionalization... From Tavern to Courthouse is to be recommended.
Christopher Lawrence Tomlins William and Mary Quarterly 2005 McNamara's thesis... is convincing.
James L. Garvin Historic New Hampshire 2005 An excellent work that expands our understanding of public space ... Read more
Christopher Lawrence Tomlins William and Mary Quarterly 2005 McNamara's thesis... is convincing.
James L. Garvin Historic New Hampshire 2005 An excellent work that expands our understanding of public space ... Read more