Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Law, Colonization, Legitimation, and the European Background
- 2 The Law of Native Americans, to 1815
- 3 English Settlement and Local Governance
- 4 Legal Communications and Imperial Governance: British North America and Spanish America Compared
- 5 Regionalism in Early American Law
- 6 Penality and the Colonial Project: Crime, Punishment, and the Regulation of Morals in Early America
- 7 Law, Population, Labor
- 8 The Fragmented Laws of Slavery in the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
- 9 The Transformation of Domestic Law
- 10 Law and Religion in Colonial America
- 11 The Transformation of Law and Economy in Early America
- 12 Law and Commerce, 1580–1815
- 13 Law and the Origins of the American Revolution
- 14 Confederation and Constitution
- 15 The Consolidation of the Early Federal System, 1791–1812
- 16 Magistrates, Common Law Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of British America
- Bibliographic Essays
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008
- Frontmatter
- 1 Law, Colonization, Legitimation, and the European Background
- 2 The Law of Native Americans, to 1815
- 3 English Settlement and Local Governance
- 4 Legal Communications and Imperial Governance: British North America and Spanish America Compared
- 5 Regionalism in Early American Law
- 6 Penality and the Colonial Project: Crime, Punishment, and the Regulation of Morals in Early America
- 7 Law, Population, Labor
- 8 The Fragmented Laws of Slavery in the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
- 9 The Transformation of Domestic Law
- 10 Law and Religion in Colonial America
- 11 The Transformation of Law and Economy in Early America
- 12 Law and Commerce, 1580–1815
- 13 Law and the Origins of the American Revolution
- 14 Confederation and Constitution
- 15 The Consolidation of the Early Federal System, 1791–1812
- 16 Magistrates, Common Law Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of British America
- Bibliographic Essays
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- The Cambridge History of Law in America , pp. i - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008