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New Histories of American Law Ser.: Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction : A Nation of Rights by Laura F. Edwards (2015, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107008794

ISBN-139781107008793

eBay Product ID (ePID)202604172

Product Key Features

Number of Pages226 Pages

Publication NameLegal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction : a Nation of Rights

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Legal History

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

AuthorLaura F. Edwards

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, History

SeriesNew Histories of American Law Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.1 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2014-033240

TitleLeadingA

Reviews"Bold, brilliant, and sweeping, this concise history places the transformation of American law at the center of the Civil War. In clear analysis of constitutional amendments, Supreme Court decisions, expanding wartime powers, and everyday people's bold claims, Edwards shows that a war fought to preserve a legal order ended up almost entirely remaking it. The legal dismantling of American slavery not only extended rights to new people but also reconfigured what rights meant and why they were so central to the new American nation that the war made." Gregory Downs, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal349.7309/034

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.

SynopsisAlthough 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., Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, altering Americans' relationship to the law and allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit of government policy. The results linked Americans to the nation through individual rights, which were extended to more people and, as a result of new claims, were reimagined to cover a wider array of issues. But rights had limits in what they could accomplish, particularly when it came to the collective goals that so many ordinary Americans advocated. Ultimately, Laura F. Edwards argues that this new nation of rights offered up promises that would prove difficult to sustain., 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. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, altering Americans' relationship to the law and allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit of government policy. The results linked Americans to the nation through individual rights, which were extended to more people and, as a result of new claims, were reimagined to cover a wider array of issues. But rights had limits in what they could accomplish, particularly when it came to the collective goals that so many ordinary Americans advocated.

LC Classification NumberKF366.E39 2015