Laura F. Edwards

A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008793
• ISBN-10: 1107008794
• Artikelnr.: 41610927

Autorenporträt

Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. Her book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South was awarded the American Historical Association's 2009 Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor Prize for the best book in Southern history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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.