Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction

A Legal History Documentary Reader

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2009
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-2889-5 (ISBN)

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The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor Christian G. Samito has carefully selected excerpts from legislation, public and legislative debates, court cases, investigations of white supremacist violence in the South, and rare court-martial records, added his expert analysis, and illustrated the selections with telling period artwork to create an outstanding resource that demonstrates the rich and important legal history of the era.

Christian G. Samito, who earned a law degree from Harvard Law School and a doctorate in American history from Boston College, is the editor of Commanding Boston’s Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and “Fear Was Not in Him”: The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A, and the author of Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era. In addition to teaching at Boston College and Boston University School of Law, Samito practices law in Boston.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2009
Zusatzinfo	24
Verlagsort	Carbondale
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8093-2889-5 / 0809328895
ISBN-13	978-0-8093-2889-5 / 9780809328895
Zustand	Neuware