American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

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by  G. Edward White

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ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANGELS David Albert Jones
AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman
and Richard Rathbone THE ANGLO - S AXON AGE
AFRICAN RELIGIONS John Blair
Jacob K. Olupona THE ANIMAL
A GNOSTICISM KINGDOM Peter Holland
Robin Le Poidevin A NIMAL RIGHTS
AMERICAN HISTORY David DeGrazia
Paul S. Boyer THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION A NTISEMITISM Steven Beller
David A. Gerber ANXIETY Daniel Freeman
A MERICAN LEGAL and Jason Freeman
HISTORY G. Edward White THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS
AMERICAN POLITICAL Paul Foster
PARTIES AND ELECTIONS A RCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
L. Sandy Maisel ARCHITECTURE
A MERICAN POLITICS Andrew Ballantyne
Richard M. Valelly A RISTOCRACY William Doyle
THE AMERICAN A RISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
PRESIDENCY Charles O. Jones A RT HISTORY Dana Arnold
ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
ANARCHISM Colin Ward ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw ATHEISM Julian Baggini
ANCIENT GREECE AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick
Paul Cartledge A USTRALIA Kenneth Morgan
T HE ANCIENT NEAR AUTISM Uta Frith
EAST Amanda H. Podany T HE AVANT GARDE
A NCIENT PHILOSOPHY David Cottington
Julia Annas THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco
A NCIENT WARFARE BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes
Harry Sidebottom BARTHES Jonathan Culler
THE BEATS David Sterritt CIVIL ENGINEERING
BEAUTY Roger Scruton David Muir Wood
BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
T HE BIBLE John Riches Helen Morales
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CLASSICS Mary Beard
Eric H. Cline and John Henderson
B IOGRAPHY Hermione Lee CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
THE BLUES Elijah Wald CLIMATE Mark Maslin
T HE BOOK OF MORMON THE COLD WAR
Terryl Givens Robert McMahon
BORDERS Alexander C. Diener COLONIAL AMERICA
and Joshua Hagen Alan Taylor
T HE BRAIN Michael O’Shea COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN
THE BRITISH LITERATURE Rolena Adorno
CONSTITUTION COMEDY Matthew Bevis
Martin Loughlin COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes
THE BRITISH EMPIRE THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince
Ashley Jackson THE CONQUISTADORS
B RITISH POLITICS Matthew Restall and
Anthony Wright Felipe Fernández-Armesto
B UDDHA Michael Carrithers CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm
BUDDHISM Damien Keown CONSCIOUSNESS
BUDDHIST ETHICS Susan Blackmore
Damien Keown CONTEMPORARY ART
C ANCER Nicholas James Julian Stallabrass
C APITALISM James Fulcher CONTEMPORARY
CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins FICTION Robert Eaglestone
CAUSATION Stephen Mumford CONTINENTAL
and Rani Lill Anjum PHILOSOPHY
T HE CELL Terence Allen and Simon Critchley
Graham Cowling COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
T HE CELTS Barry Cunliffe CRITICAL THEORY
C HAOS Leonard Smith Stephen Eric Bronner
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE THE CRUSADES
Kimberley Reynolds Christopher Tyerman
C HINESE LITERATURE CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper
Sabina Knight and Sean Murphy
C HOICE THEORY THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Michael Allingham Richard Curt Kraus
C HRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson DADA AND SURREALISM
CHRISTIAN ETHICS David Hopkins
D. Stephen Long DARWIN Jonathan Howard
C HRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
C ITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy Timothy Lim
DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick E VOLUTION Brian and
DERRIDA Simon Glendinning Deborah Charlesworth
DESCARTES Tom Sorell EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn
DESERTS Nick Middleton F ASCISM Kevin Passmore
DESIGN John Heskett FASHION Rebecca Arnold
DEVELOPMENTAL FEMINISM Margaret Walters
BIOLOGY Lewis Wolpert FILM Michael Wood
T HE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak
DIASPORA Kevin Kenny THE FIRST WORLD WAR
DICTIONARIES Michael Howard
Lynda Mugglestone FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin
DINOSAURS David Norman FOOD John Krebs
DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
DOCUMENTARY FILM David Canter
Patricia Aufderheide F ORENSIC SCIENCE
D REAMING J. Allan Hobson Jim Fraser
DRUGS Leslie Iversen F OSSILS Keith Thomson
DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FOUCAULT Gary Gutting
EARLY MUSIC FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer
Thomas Forrest Kelly F REE SPEECH Nigel Warburton
THE EARTH Martin Redfern FREE WILL Thomas Pink
ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta FRENCH LITERATURE
EDUCATION Gary Thomas John D. Lyons
E GYPTIAN MYTH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Geraldine Pinch William Doyle
E IGHTEENTH - CENTURY FREUD Anthony Storr
BRITAIN Paul Langford FUNDAMENTALISM
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Malise Ruthven
EMOTION Dylan Evans G ALAXIES John Gribbin
E MPIRE Stephen Howe G ALILEO Stillman Drake
E NGELS Terrell Carver G AME THEORY Ken Binmore
E NGINEERING David Blockley G ANDHI Bhikhu Parekh
ENGLISH LITERATURE GENIUS Andrew Robinson
Jonathan Bate GEOGRAPHY John Matthews
E NTREPRENEURSHIP and David Herbert
Paul Westhead and Mike Wright GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds
ENVIRONMENTAL GERMAN LITERATURE
ECONOMICS Stephen Smith Nicholas Boyle
EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci GERMAN PHILOSOPHY
E THICS Simon Blackburn Andrew Bowie
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY GLOBAL CATASTROPHES
Timothy Rice Bill McGuire
THE EUROPEAN UNION G LOBAL ECONOMIC
John Pinder and Simon Usherwood HISTORY Robert C. Allen
GLOBAL WARMING INTERNATIONAL
Mark Maslin MIGRATION Khalid Koser
G LOBALIZATION INTERNATIONAL
Manfred Steger RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson
T HE GOTHIC Nick Groom INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
G OVERNANCE Mark Bevir Christopher S. Browning
T HE GREAT DEPRESSION ISLAM Malise Ruthven
AND THE NEW DEAL ISLAMIC HISTORY
Eric Rauchway Adam Silverstein
H ABERMAS ITALIAN LITERATURE
James Gordon Finlayson Peter Hainsworth
HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron and David Robey
H EGEL Peter Singer JESUS Richard Bauckham
H EIDEGGER Michael Inwood JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves
H ERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts JUDAISM Norman Solomon
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson JUNG Anthony Stevens
HINDUISM Kim Knott KABBALAH Joseph Dan
HISTORY John H. Arnold KAFKA Ritchie Robertson
T HE HISTORY OF KANT Roger Scruton
ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin KEYNES Robert Skidelsky
THE HISTORY OF LIFE KIERKEGAARD
Michael Benton Patrick Gardiner
T HE HISTORY OF THE KORAN Michael Cook
MATHEMATICS LANDSCAPES AND
Jacqueline Stedall GEOMORPHOLOGY
THE HISTORY OF Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles
MEDICINE William Bynum LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson
THE HISTORY OF LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark
TIME Leofranc Holford - S trevens LAW Raymond Wacks
H IV/AIDS Alan Whiteside THE LAWS OF
HOBBES Richard Tuck THERMODYNAMICS
HUMAN EVOLUTION Peter Atkins
Bernard Wood LEADERSHIP Keith Grint
H UMAN RIGHTS LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo
Andrew Clapham LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews
H UMANISM Stephen Law LITERARY THEORY
HUME A. J. Ayer Jonathan Culler
IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden LOCKE John Dunn
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY LOGIC Graham Priest
Sue Hamilton MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner
I NFORMATION Luciano Floridi MADNESS Andrew Scull
INNOVATION Mark Dodgson MAGIC Owen Davies
and David Gann MAGNA CARTA
I NTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary Nicholas Vincent
MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell MUSIC Nicholas Cook
M ALTHUS Donald Winch MYTH Robert A. Segal
M ANAGEMENT John Hendry T HE NAPOLEONIC
M AO Delia Davin WARS Mike Rapport
MARINE BIOLOGY NATIONALISM Steven Grosby
Philip V. Mladenov NELSON MANDELA
THE MARQUIS DE SADE Elleke Boehmer
John Phillips NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger
M ARTIN LUTHER and Ravi Roy
Scott H. Hendrix NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and
M ARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell Michele Catanzaro
MARX Peter Singer T HE NEW TESTAMENT
M ATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers Luke Timothy Johnson
THE MEANING OF LIFE THE NEW TESTAMENT AS
Terry Eagleton LITERATURE Kyle Keefer
M EDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope NEWTON Robert Iliffe
M EDICAL LAW Charles Foster NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN NINETEENTH - C ENTURY
John Gillingham and BRITAIN Christopher Harvie
Ralph A. Griffiths and H. C. G. Matthew
MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster THE NORMAN CONQUEST
METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford George Garnett
MICHAEL FARADAY N ORTH AMERICAN
Frank A.J.L. James INDIANS Theda Perdue and
M ODERN ART David Cottington Michael D. Green
MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter NORTHERN IRELAND
M ODERN FRANCE Marc Mulholland
Vanessa R. Schwartz NOTHING Frank Close
M ODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta NUCLEAR POWER
M ODERN JAPAN Christopher Maxwell Irvine
Goto-Jones NUCLEAR WEAPONS
M ODERN LATIN Joseph M. Siracusa
AMERICAN LITERATURE NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins
Roberto González Echevarría OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger
M ODERN WAR Richard English THE OLD TESTAMENT
MODERNISM Christopher Butler Michael D. Coogan
MOLECULES Philip Ball THE ORCHESTRA
THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi D. Kern Holoman
MORMONISM ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch
Richard Lyman Bushman PAGANISM Owen Davies
M UHAMMAD THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI
Jonathan A.C. Brown CONFLICT Martin Bunton
M ULTICULTURALISM PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close
Ali Rattansi PAUL E. P. Sanders
PENTECOSTALISM THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
William K. Kay Gil Troy
THE PERIODIC TABLE R EALITY Jan Westerhoff
Eric R. Scerri THE REFORMATION
PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig Peter Marshall
P HILOSOPHY OF LAW RELATIVITY Russell Stannard
Raymond Wacks RELIGION IN
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AMERICA Timothy Beal
Samir Okasha THE RENAISSANCE
P HOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards Jerry Brotton
PLAGUE Paul Slack RENAISSANCE ART
P LANETS David A. Rothery Geraldine A. Johnson
PLANTS Timothy Walker RHETORIC Richard Toye
PLATO Julia Annas RISK Baruch Fischhoff
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and John Kadvany
David Miller RIVERS Nick Middleton
P OLITICS Kenneth Minogue ROBOTICS Alan Winfield
POSTCOLONIALISM ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway
Robert Young THE ROMAN EMPIRE
POSTMODERNISM Christopher Kelly
Christopher Butler THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
P OSTSTRUCTURALISM David M. Gwynn
Catherine Belsey ROMANTICISM
P REHISTORY Chris Gosden Michael Ferber
PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
Catherine Osborne RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
PRIVACY Raymond Wacks RUSSIAN HISTORY
PROBABILITY John Haigh Geoffrey Hosking
PROGRESSIVISM RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Walter Nugent Catriona Kelly
PROTESTANTISM THE RUSSIAN
Mark A. Noll REVOLUTION S. A. Smith
PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith
P SYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and Eve Johnstone
and Freda McManus SCHOPENHAUER
PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer Christopher Janaway
T HE QUAKERS SCIENCE AND
Pink Dandelion RELIGION Thomas Dixon
QUANTUM THEORY SCIENCE FICTION David Seed
John Polkinghorne THE SCIENTIFIC
R ACISM Ali Rattansi REVOLUTION
R ADIOACTIVITY Lawrence M. Principe
Claudio Tuniz SCOTLAND Rab Houston
R ASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer THOUGHT Tim Bayne
S IKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt TIBETAN BUDDHISM
THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward Matthew T. Kapstein
SLEEP Steven W. Lockley T OCQUEVILLE
and Russell G. Foster Harvey C. Mansfield
S OCIAL AND CULTURAL TRAGEDY Adrian Poole
ANTHROPOLOGY T HE TROJAN WAR
John Monaghan and Peter Just Eric H. Cline
SOCIALISM Michael Newman TRUST Katherine Hawley
SOCIOLINGUISTICS THE TUDORS John Guy
John Edwards T WENTIETH - C ENTURY
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan
S OCRATES C. C. W. Taylor THE UNITED NATIONS
T HE SOVIET UNION Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Stephen Lovell T HE U.S. CONGRESS
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Donald A. Ritchie
Helen Graham T HE U.S. SUPREME
SPANISH LITERATURE COURT Linda Greenhouse
Jo Labanyi UTOPIANISM
SPINOZA Roger Scruton Lyman Tower Sargent
SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake THE VIKINGS Julian Richards
S TARS Andrew King VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford
S TATISTICS David J. Hand WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill
STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling
STUART BRITAIN John Morrill WORK Stephen Fineman
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman
Stephen Blundell THE WORLD TRADE
SYMMETRY Ian Stewart ORGANIZATION
T ERRORISM Charles Townshend Amrita Narlikar
THEOLOGY David F. Ford WRITING AND SCRIPT
T HOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr Andrew Robinson
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G . Edward White
American
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A Very Short Introduction

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