The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Studies in Legal History)

by Horwitz (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $55.95

  In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States.