A history of American law / Lawrence M. Friedman.

New York : Touchstone, 2005.

3rd ed.

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Law -- United States -- History.

Part 1. The beginnings: American law in the colonial period

Part 2. From the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century: 1776-1850: 1. The republic of bees

2. Outposts of the law: the frontier and the civil law fringe

3. Law and the economy: 1776-1850

4. The law of personal status: wives, paupers, and slaves

5. An American law of property

6. The law of commerce and trade

7. Crime and punishment: and a footnote on tort

8. The bar and its works

Part 3. American law to the close of the nineteenth century: 1. Blood and gold: some main themes in the law in the last half of the nineteenth century

2. Judges and courts: 1850-1900

3. Procedure and practice: an age of reform

4. The land and other property

5. Administrative law and regulation of business

6. Torts

7. The underdogs: 1850-1900

8. The law of corporations

9. Commerce, labor, and taxation

10. Crime and punishment

11. The legal profession: the training and literature of law

12. The legal profession: at work

Part 4. The twentieth century: 1. Leviathan comes of age

2. The growth of the law

3. Internal legal culture in the twentieth century: lawyers, judges, and law books

4. Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law

5. Crime and punishment in the twentieth century

6. Family law in the twentieth century

Epilogue: a final word

Bibliographial essay

Index.

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xx, 620 p.