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  • The Many Legalities of Early America

    Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins, Bruce H. Mann ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of “legality” to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, whether as individuals, groups, classes, communities, or states ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Escaping Salem

    The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    by Richard Godbeer ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth. Now Richard Godbeer describes this "other witch hunt" in a concise, fascinating narrative that illuminates the colonial world and shatters the stereotype of early New Englanders as quick to accuse and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A History of the Supreme Court

    by the late Bernard Schwartz ...
    When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to run for Governor of New York; and Alexander Hamilton declined to replace Jay, pursuing a private law practice instead. As Bernard ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Bacon's Rebellion, a Williamsburg Scandal & Colonel Chiswell's Sword

    Three Plays from Virginia's Colonial History

    by Ron Larson ...
    Perhaps no state rivals Virginia when it comes to colonial history. Yet, there are many aspects of Virginia's early history that are either unknown or vaguely known by the general public. Over the last thirty years, Larson has written over thirty plays that deal with these aspects and the generally well-known men and women involved in them. These people include such names as Thomas Jefferson, John ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Freedom Bound

    Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Pressing into the Kingdom of God (Illustrated Edition)

    by Jonathan Edwards ...
    Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian, and hes considered one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Reformed theology, the ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores

    Common Law and Common Folk in Early America

    by Elaine Forman Crane ...
    The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series New Histories of American Law
    Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Pen and Ink Witchcraft

    Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Common Law in Colonial America

    Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660

    by William E. Nelson ...
    Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law. In this first volume, Nelson explores how the ... Read more

    $65.59 CAD

  • Women Before the Bar

    Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

    by Cornelia Hughes Dayton ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women’s participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions — including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women’s relation to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • For God, King, and People

    Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia

    by Alexander B. Haskell ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age rather than an era of early modern entrepreneurialism. These men did not ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD