Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction - A Nation of Rights

Informationen zum Autor Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. Her book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South was awarded the American Historical Association's 2009 Littleton–Griswold Prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor Prize for the best book in Southern history. Klappentext This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War. Zusammenfassung Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the American Civil War! perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The United States and its use of the people; 2. The Confederacy and its legal contradictions; 3. Enslaved Americans, emancipation, and the future legal order; 4. The federal government and the reconstruction of the legal order; 5. The possibilities of rights; 6. The power of law and the limits of rights; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Laura F. Edwards, Laura F. (Duke University Edwards, Edwards Laura F.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107008793
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00879-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: New Histories of American Law; New Histories of American Law
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas