Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0814725260 ISBN 13: 9780814725269

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

One of the academy’s leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning books have blazed new trails for historians with their substantive arguments and the scope and depth of Nelson’s exploration of primary sources. Nelson was the first legal scholar to use early American county court records as sources of legal and social history, and his work (on legal history in England, colonial America, and New York) has been a model for generations of legal historians.  This book collects ten essays exemplifying and explaining the process of identifying and interpreting archival sources—the foundation of an array of methods of writing American legal history. The essays presented here span the full range of American history from the colonial era to the 1980s.Each historian has either identified a body of sources not previously explored or devised a new method of interrogating sources already known.The result is a kaleidoscopic examination of the historian’s task and of the research methods and interpretative strategies that characterize the rich, complex field of American constitutional and legal history.

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L'autore

Daniel J. Hulsebosch is Charles Seligson Professor of Law and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0814725260
• ISBN 13: 9780814725269
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 316
• Redattore: Hulsebosch Daniel J., Bernstein R. B.