Author: Jack P. GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Great Britan and the American Colonies. -
Author: 1763-1776
Author: Moses Coit TylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1763
Author: Carl UbbelohdeEnglish Colonization and the Formation of Anglo-American Polities, 1606-1664
Author: Yunlong ManPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Great Britain and the American Colonies, 1616-1763
Author: Jack P. GreeneThe Colonial Origins of the United States, 1607-1763
Author: William Wright AbbotPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851969487
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crisis of Empire
Author: Ian Ralph ChristieCriminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660
Author: Bradley ChapinPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336912
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the “reception” of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates. In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a “lost period” of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judicial views of how the law was to be administered. He provides social and economic explanations of shifts and peculiarities in the law, using carefully arranged evidence from the records. His treatment of the Quaker cases in Massachusetts and the witchcraft prosecutions in New England throws new light on those frequently misunderstood episodes. Chapin's book will be of interest not only to scholars working in the field but also to anyone curious about early American legal history.
History of the Colony of New Haven
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description