Author: Bradley ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Collection of primary materials for first 163 years of American history.
Provincial America, 1600-1763
Author: Bradley ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Collection of primary materials for first 163 years of American history.
Criminal 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.
Writings on American History, 1962-73
Author: James R. MastersonPublisher: Washington, D.C. : American Historical Association ; White Plains, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
This book "provides a comprehensive listing of the book-length works published from 1962 to 1973 that are relevant to the study of American history [and is] organized into a subject classification system. This bibliography gives access to over 50,000 works on the history, the geography, and the political, social, and economic aspects of the United States, its people, its government, and its institutions. The entries cover the entire area now within the United States or under its jurisdiction, ranging from prehistoric times to 1973"--Introd.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressProminent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1780
Book Description
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.