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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Massachusetts, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: John Duncan HaskellPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Norwood: the Centennial History of a Massachusetts Town
Author: Bryant Franklin TollesPublisher:
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Category : Norwood (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
Author: Morton J. HORWITZPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038789
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. Horwitz's subtle and sophisticated explanation of societal change begins with the common law, which was intended to provide justice for all. The great breakpoint came after 1790 when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development. The courts spurred economic competition instead of circumscribing it. This new instrumental law flourished as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. The evolving law of the early republic interacted with political philosophy, Horwitz shows. The doctrine of laissez-faire, long considered the cloak for competition, is here seen as a shield for the newly rich. By the 1840s the overarching reach of the doctrine prevented further distribution of wealth and protected entrenched classes by disallowing the courts very much power to intervene in economic life. This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform.
An Inventory of the Records of the Particular (Congregational) Churches of Massachusetts Gathered 1620-1805
Author: Harold Field WorthleyPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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... Thurston Genealogies
Author: Brown ThurstonThe Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908
Author: Edward HookerCreatures of Empire
Author: Virginia DeJohn AndersonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195304466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
Author: George Thomas LittlePublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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