• Remaking custom : law and identity in the early American Republic
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: law and identity in the early American Republic
    Author: PearsonEllen Holmes, 1962-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Charlottesville
    Published: University of Virginia Press;
    Year of Publication: 2011
    Description: 1 online resource (xi, 251 p.).
    Series: Jeffersonian America
    Subject: Law - History - United States - 19th century -
    Subject: Law - History - United States - 18th century -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813930930/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index
    ISBN: 9780813930930electronic bk.
    ISBN: 0813930936electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780813930787hbk.
    ISBN: 0813930782hbk.
    Content Note: Introduction -- America's common law : custom, choice, and history lessons -- American constitutions and American character -- Property acquisition and inheritance -- The question of slavery inthe New Republic-- Public lands, expansion, and the Native Americans -- Custom, the written law, and American legal treatises -- Conclusion
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