Making Legal History : : Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson / / ed. by R. B. Bernstein, Daniel J. Hulsebosch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barringer Gordon, Sarah,; Blumenthal, Susanna L.,; Brown-Nagin, Tomiko,; Cushman, Barry,; Dayton, Cornelia H.,; Hamilton, Daniel W.,; Horwitz, Morton J.,; Mackey, Thomas C.,; Salinger, Sharon V.,; Schiller, Reuel,; Wertheimer, John,; Witt, John Fabian,
• HerausgeberIn: Bernstein, R. B.,; Hulsebosch, Daniel J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

One of the academy’s leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning b...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• I. Civil Wars and Legal Rights
• 1. The Landscape of Faith
• 2. “It cant be cald stealin’”
• 3. Debating the Fourteenth Amendment
• II. Law and Social Regulation
• 4. Was the Warning of Strangers Unique to Colonial New England?
• 5. Ambiguities of Free Labor Revisited
• 6. The Long, Broad, and Deep Civil Rights Movement
• 7. Counting as a Tool of Legal History
• III. Courts, Judges, and Litigators
• 8. A Mania for Accumulation
• 9. The Political Economy of Pain
• 10. An Unexpected Antagonist
• Bibliography of the Scholarship of William E. Nelson, 1963–2012
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index