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E pluribus unum : how the common law helped unify and liberate colonial America, 1607-1776
Title
E pluribus unum : how the common law helped unify and liberate colonial America, 1607-1776 / William E. Nelson.
ISBN
9780190880804
0190880805
9780190880828
0190880821
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
x, 272 pages ; 25 cm.
Variant and related titles
How the common law helped unify and liberate colonial America, 1607-1776.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 31, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
Contents
Part I. The initial settlements, 1607-1660
The Chesapeake
New England
New Netherland
Part II. The forging of empire, 1660-1750
The Crown's imposition of the common law and colonial resistance
The end of resistance and the triumph of the common law
Ready acceptance of the common law : Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the South
The emergence of the legal profession
Property, commercial law, labor law, and slavery
Part III. Altering empire to defeat France, 1689-1750
The local structure of power
The law of religion
Criminal and regulatory law
Part IV. The collapse of empire, 1750-1776
The well-functioning empire of the mid-Eighteenth Century
Weakening the bonds of empire
Testing the bonds of empire
Severing the ties of empire
A historian's postscript.
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