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COMMON LAW IN COLONIAL AMERICA Vol. 1: By William E. Nelson (2008 HC){B10}
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195327284
ISBN-13
9780195327281
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102797936
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Common Law in Colonial America Vol. 1 : Volume I: the Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
Subject
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Legal History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-044063
Dewey Edition
23
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"In a rigorous and original analysis, Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America brings to life the complex and fascinating origins of American law. As Nelson quite brilliantly reveals, the early colonists struggled to make sense of law, religion, sex, crime, and economics in a harsh,challenging and often forbidding New World."--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, "Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America begins a sweeping multi-volume revision of the way we understand our nation's legal foundations. With exhaustive research and the perspective of a master historian and legal scholar, he demonstrates how the earliest years of settlement shaped thefuture of American law and bequeathed to us a system that accommodates diversity within a common commitment to the basic concepts of the rule of law."--David T. Konig, author of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692, "In his innovative analysis of legal culture in the early colonies, Nelson boldly discards the framework of reception in favor of intercolonial comparison. The result is a thoroughly researched compendium of case law that reveals how the rule of law evolved as a check on arbitrary magisterialpower. It should prove valuable to both legal and social historians."--Marylynn Salmon, author of Women and the Law of Property in Early America, "Nelson's conception of The Common Law in Colonial America is magisterial, and only he has the knowledge and capacity to produce a synthesis at such length and depth. His first volume brilliantly sums up what the first generation of historically trained scholars of early American law havelearned, and places it in an analytical context that is easy to comprehend, yet subtle and original."--Stanley N. Katz, coeditor of Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development, "In a rigorous and original analysis, Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America brings to life the complex and fascinating origins of American law. As Nelson quite brilliantly reveals, the early colonists struggled to make sense of law, religion, sex, crime, and economics in a harsh, challenging and often forbidding New World."--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War onTerrorism"Nelson's conception of The Common Law in Colonial America is magisterial, and only he has the knowledge and capacity to produce a synthesis at such length and depth. His first volume brilliantly sums up what the first generation of historically trained scholars of early American law have learned, and places it in an analytical context that is easy to comprehend, yet subtle and original."--Stanley N. Katz, coeditor of Colonial America: Essays inPolitics and Social Development"Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America begins a sweeping multi-volume revision of the way we understand our nation's legal foundations. With exhaustive research and the perspective of a master historian and legal scholar, he demonstrates how the earliest years of settlement shaped the future of American law and bequeathed to us a system that accommodates diversity within a common commitment to the basic concepts of the rule of law."--David T.Konig, author of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692"In his innovative analysis of legal culture in the early colonies, Nelson boldly discards the framework of reception in favor of intercolonial comparison. The result is a thoroughly researched compendium of case law that reveals how the rule of law evolved as a check on arbitrary magisterial power. It should prove valuable to both legal and social historians."--Marylynn Salmon, author of Women and the Law of Property in Early America"In a rigorous and original analysis, Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America brings to life the complex and fascinating origins of American law. As Nelson quite brilliantly reveals, the early colonists struggled to make sense of law, religion, sex, crime, and economics in a harsh, challenging and often forbidding New World."--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War onTerrorism"Nelson's conception of The Common Law in Colonial America is magisterial, and only he has the knowledge and capacity to produce a synthesis at such length and depth. His first volume brilliantly sums up what the first generation of historically trained scholars of early American law have learned, and places it in an analytical context that is easy to comprehend, yet subtle and original."--Stanley N. Katz, coeditor of Colonial America: Essays inPolitics and Social Development"Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America begins a sweeping multi-volume revision of the way we understand our nation's legal foundations. With exhaustive research and the perspective of a master historian and legal scholar, he demonstrates how the earliest years of settlement shaped the future of American law and bequeathed to us a system that accommodates diversity within a common commitment to the basic concepts of the rule of law."--David T.Konig, author of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692"In his innovative analysis of legal culture in the early colonies, Nelson boldly discards the framework of reception in favor of intercolonial comparison. The result is a thoroughly researched compendium of case law that reveals how the rule of law evolved as a check on arbitrary magisterial power. It should prove valuable to both legal and social historians."--Marylynn Salmon, author of Women and the Law of Property in Early America, "In a rigorous and original analysis, Nelson'sThe Common Law in Colonial Americabrings to life the complex and fascinating origins of American law. As Nelson quite brilliantly reveals, the early colonists struggled to make sense of law, religion, sex, crime, and economics in a harsh, challenging and often forbidding New World."--Geoffrey R. Stone, author ofPerilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism "Nelson's conception ofThe Common Law in Colonial Americais magisterial, and only he has the knowledge and capacity to produce a synthesis at such length and depth. His first volume brilliantly sums up what the first generation of historically trained scholars of early American law have learned, and places it in an analytical context that is easy to comprehend, yet subtle and original."--Stanley N. Katz, coeditor ofColonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development "Nelson'sThe Common Law in Colonial Americabegins a sweeping multi-volume revision of the way we understand our nation's legal foundations. With exhaustive research and the perspective of a master historian and legal scholar, he demonstrates how the earliest years of settlement shaped the future of American law and bequeathed to us a system that accommodates diversity within a common commitment to the basic concepts of the rule of law."--David T. Konig, author ofLaw and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 "In his innovative analysis of legal culture in the early colonies, Nelson boldly discards the framework of reception in favor of intercolonial comparison. The result is a thoroughly researched compendium of case law that reveals how the rule of law evolved as a check on arbitrary magisterial power. It should prove valuable to both legal and social historians."--Marylynn Salmon, author ofWomen and the Law of Property in Early America, "In a rigorous and original analysis, Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America brings to life the complex and fascinating origins of American law. As Nelson quite brilliantly reveals, the early colonists struggled to make sense of law, religion, sex, crime, and economics in a harsh, challenging and often forbidding New World."--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism"Nelson's conception of The Common Law in Colonial America is magisterial, and only he has the knowledge and capacity to produce a synthesis at such length and depth. His first volume brilliantly sums up what the first generation of historically trained scholars of early American law have learned, and places it in an analytical context that is easy to comprehend, yet subtle and original."--Stanley N. Katz, coeditor of Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development"Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America begins a sweeping multi-volume revision of the way we understand our nation's legal foundations. With exhaustive research and the perspective of a master historian and legal scholar, he demonstrates how the earliest years of settlement shaped the future of American law and bequeathed to us a system that accommodates diversity within a common commitment to the basic concepts of the rule of law."--David T. Konig, author of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692"In his innovative analysis of legal culture in the early colonies, Nelson boldly discards the framework of reception in favor of intercolonial comparison. The result is a thoroughly researched compendium of case law that reveals how the rule of law evolved as a check on arbitrary magisterial power. It should prove valuable to both legal and social historians."--Marylynn Salmon, author of Women and the Law of Property in Early America, "In a rigorous and original analysis, Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America brings to life the complex and fascinating origins of American law. As Nelson quite brilliantly reveals, the early colonists struggled to make sense of law, religion, sex, crime, and economics in a harsh, challenging and often forbidding New World."--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism "Nelson's conception of The Common Law in Colonial America is magisterial, and only he has the knowledge and capacity to produce a synthesis at such length and depth. His first volume brilliantly sums up what the first generation of historically trained scholars of early American law have learned, and places it in an analytical context that is easy to comprehend, yet subtle and original."--Stanley N. Katz, coeditor of Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development "Nelson's The Common Law in Colonial America begins a sweeping multi-volume revision of the way we understand our nation's legal foundations. With exhaustive research and the perspective of a master historian and legal scholar, he demonstrates how the earliest years of settlement shaped the future of American law and bequeathed to us a system that accommodates diversity within a common commitment to the basic concepts of the rule of law."--David T. Konig, author of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 "In his innovative analysis of legal culture in the early colonies, Nelson boldly discards the framework of reception in favor of intercolonial comparison. The result is a thoroughly researched compendium of case law that reveals how the rule of law evolved as a check on arbitrary magisterial power. It should prove valuable to both legal and social historians."--Marylynn Salmon, author of Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Dewey Decimal
349.7309/032
Table Of Content
Introduction1. Law in the Jamestown Settlement2. Capitalism and the Free Market in Virginia, 1619-16603. Puritan Law in the Bay Colony4. Popular Power and the Rule of Law in Massachusetts5. . The New England Satellites6. The Battle for Maryland7. Conclusion: The Future of American LawNotesIndex
Synopsis
William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history. Examining all archival legal material for the period 1607-1776 and synthesizing existing scholarship in a four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America shows how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies--initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives--slowly converged into a common American legal order that differed substantially from English common law. Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly in-depth research into local court records and statutes, the first volume explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--diverged sharply from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and traces the roots of these dissimilarities from their initial settlement until approximately 1660. Nelson pointedly examines the disparate motives of the legal systems in the respective colonies as they dealt with religion, price and labor regulations, crimes, public morals, the status of women, and the enforcement of contractual obligations. He reveals how Virginians' zeal for profit led to a harsh legal framework that efficiently squeezed payment out of debtors and labor out of servants; whereas the laws of Massachusetts were primarily concerned with the preservation of local autonomy and the moral values of family-centered farming communities. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, gravitated towards the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law, gravitated toward that of Virginia. Comprehensive, authoritative, and extensively researched, The Common Law in Colonial America, Volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660 is the definitive resource on the beginnings of the common law and its evolution during this vibrant era in America's history. William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history., William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history. Examining all archival legal material for the period 1607-1776 and synthesizing existing scholarship in a four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America shows how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies--initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives--slowly converged into a common Americanlegal order that differed substantially from English common law. Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly in-depth research into local court records and statutes, the first volumeexplores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--diverged sharply from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and traces the roots of these dissimilarities from their initial settlement until approximately 1660. Nelson pointedly examines the disparate motives of the legal systems in the respective colonies as they dealt with religion, price and labor regulations, crimes, public morals, the status of women, and theenforcement of contractual obligations. He reveals how Virginians' zeal for profit led to a harsh legal framework that efficiently squeezed payment out of debtors and labor out of servants; whereas thelaws of Massachusetts were primarily concerned with the preservation of local autonomy and the moral values of family-centered farming communities. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, gravitated towards the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law, gravitated toward that of Virginia. Comprehensive, authoritative, and extensively researched, The Common Law in Colonial America, Volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660 is thedefinitive resource on the beginnings of the common law and its evolution during this vibrant era in America's history. William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history., Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law. In this first volume, Nelson explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia andMaryland--differed from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and looks at the differences between the colonial legal systems within the two regions, from theirinitial settlement until approximately 1660.
LC Classification Number
KF361.N45 2008
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