Cambridge Historical Studies, American Law and Society : Law's Imagined Republic

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Modification Description
Some Notations In Pencil Throughout The Text
Field of Study
Law
Features
1st Edition, Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Subject
American Studies, English Studies, Constitutional Law, National Law
Modified Item
Yes
ISBN
9780521145282
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521145287
ISBN-13
9780521145282
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102863987

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
254 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Law's Imagined Republic : Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America
Publication Year
2010
Subject
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General
Type
Textbook
Author
Steven Wilf
Subject Area
Law, History
Series
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-002831
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
'Law's Imagined Republic is a brilliant and original portrayal of the emergence of law as the focus of struggles over legitimacy during the American revolutionary era. In Steven Wilf's hands, however, both the content and the rituals of law are being constantly contested by a mobilized populous ready to imagine different legal norms. Drawing on the rich materials of contemporary criminal trials and elaborate popular commentary through newspapers, pamphlets, and ballads, Wilf shows how legal discourse comes to occupy a central place in the American cultural imagination.' Morton J. Horwitz, Harvard Law School, "Wilf has written an important book about an evolving intellectual concept that should continue to inform the field of legal history for years to come." -Thomas H. Cox, The Journal of American History, 'Wilf has unearthed and brought to life an entire underground culture of popular lawmaking in revolutionary America: crowds, juries, defendants, townsmen, and artisans, who 'imagined' the contours of a dramatically different legal system from the one they were used to, who made law in their own popular idiom and fashioned it to their own purposes. This is brilliant, original legal-cultural history, told with lucidity and grace.' Robert Gordon, Yale University, "...remarkable essay on the role of criminal trials in the framing of American legalism." -Peter Hoffer, H-Law, 'Steven Wilf's Law's Imagined Republic is a highly provocative, inventive, and fascinating analysis of the importance of the popular discourse and practice of law-making and law-interpreting during the American Revolution. His account of the centrality of popular contributions to the culture of the law in America is thoughtful and compelling, and his efforts to bridge law and literature fresh and enjoyable.' Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles, ".., Wilf illuminates how everyday people filtered and refashioned a discourse of power into entertainment, satire, political protest, and popular reform movements." -- Jodi Schorb, University of Florida Punishment's Prisms
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
345.73/05
Table Of Content
Introduction; 1. Criminal law out-of-doors; 2. 'The language of law is a vulgar tongue'; 3. Local justice, transatlantic justice; 4. The problem of punishment in an age of revolution; 5. The statute imagined; Conclusion.
Synopsis
Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance against England, the proliferation of revolutionary legal language became intimately intertwined with politics. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases, Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law: reading one case against another and often self-consciously comparing transatlantic legal systems as they thought about how they might construct their own legal system in a new republic. What transformed extraordinary tales of crime into a political forum? How did different ways of reading or speaking about law shape our legal origins? And, ultimately, how might excavating innovative approaches to law in this formative period, which were constructed in the street as well as in the courtroom, alter our usual understanding of contemporary American legal institutions? Law's Imagined Republic tells the story of the untidy beginnings of American law., Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases, Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law.
LC Classification Number
KF9223

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