The Cambridge History of Law in America
Edited by Christopher Tomlins, Michael Grossberg

Cambridge University Press, July 2008, 3 vol. (ISBN-13: 9780521803045) £195.00

Présentation éditeur
Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together in a summary and synthesis of the history of law in America. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been designed for just this purpose. Sixty of the leading historians of law in the United States have been brought together in one enterprise to present the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of the history of American law. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

• Contributions from over 60 scholars, all the leading historians of law in the US
• Covers American law from the first contact of Europeans to the beginning of the 21st century
• An original, comprehensive, and authoritative account of American law.

Review
The publication of the three volumes of the Cambridge History of Law in America is undoubtedly a publishing tour de force and provides an unrivalled expression of current thinking on how and why American law and its institutions developed from the earliest settlements through to the early twenty-first century.' The Historical Association

Contributors
Anthony Pagden, Katherine A. Hermes, Mary Sarah Bilder, Richard J. Ross, David Thomas Konig, Michael Meranze, Christopher Tomlins, Sally E. Hadden, Holly Brewer, Mark McGarvie, Elizabeth Mensch, Bruce H. Mann, Claire Priest, Jack P. Greene, Jack N. Rakove, Saul Cornell, Gerald Leonard, James A. Henretta, Mark R. Wilson, Hugh C. MacGill, R. Kent Newmyer, Alfred S. Konefsky, Kermit L. Hall, Elizabeth Dale, Kunal M. Parker, David E. Wilkins, Norma Basch, Ariela Gross, Laura F. Edwards, Barbara Young Welke, Nan Goodman, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Tony A. Freyer, B. Zorina Khan, Karen Orren, Jonathan Lurie, Eileen P. Scully, William E. Forbath, Daniel R. Ernst, William W. Fisher III, Robert W. Gordon, Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Lawrence M. Friedman, Michael Willrich, Leslie J. Reagan, Barry Cushman, Eileen Boris, Gwendolyn Mink, Samantha Ann Majic, Leandra Zarnow, Mark Tushnet, Michael J. Klarman, Margot Canaday, Betsy Mendelsohn, Victoria Saker Woeste, John Henry Schlegel, Gregory A. Mark, Norman L. Rosenberg, Mary L. Dudziak, Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth

Détail des volumes:

• Volume 1. - Early America (1580–1815), Edited by Christopher Tomlins, Michael Grossberg, July 2008, ISBN-13:9780521803052, £75.00

This volume covers American law from the earliest settlement and colonization of North America.
'This volume is an original and extensive study of an area of colonial history that has been given less prominence than it deserves. I thoroughly recommend it.' The Historical Association

• Vol. 2. - The Long Nineteenth Century (1789–1920), Edited by Christopher Tomlins, Michael Grossberg, July 2008, ISBN-13:9780521803069, £75.00

This volume covers American law in the nineteenth century and describes the development of modern legal systems.

• Vol. 3. - The Twentieth Century and After (1920–), Edited by Christopher Tomlins, Michael Grossberg, July 2008, ISBN-13:9780521803076, £75.00

This volume covers the twentieth century after World War I and makes predictions for the twenty-first century.

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