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The Magic Mirror: Law in American History
Kermit L. Hall
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Description for The Magic Mirror: Law in American History
paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 673.
Weaving together themes from the history of public, private, and constitutional law, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History, Second Edition, recounts the roles that law-in all its many shapes and forms-has played in American history, from the days of the earliest English settlements in North America to the year 2007. It also provides comprehensive treatment of twentieth-century developments and sets American law and legal institutions in the broad context of social, cultural, economic, and political events. The Magic Mirror begins by discussing the ways that the settlers dealt with one another and with the indigenous populations; it examines ... Read more
Weaving together themes from the history of public, private, and constitutional law, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History, Second Edition, recounts the roles that law-in all its many shapes and forms-has played in American history, from the days of the earliest English settlements in North America to the year 2007. It also provides comprehensive treatment of twentieth-century developments and sets American law and legal institutions in the broad context of social, cultural, economic, and political events. The Magic Mirror begins by discussing the ways that the settlers dealt with one another and with the indigenous populations; it examines ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195081800
SKU
V9780195081800
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Ref
99-28
About Kermit L. Hall
The late Kermit L Hall was President of SUNY Albany. Peter Karsten is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reviews for The Magic Mirror: Law in American History
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, ... Read more