Law's Imagined Republic Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America |
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| Author:
| Wilf, Steven |
| Series title: | Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-84499-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | AUD $270.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.