Making legal history [electronic resource] : essays in honor of William E. Nelson / edited by Daniel J. Hulsebosch and R.B. Bernstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: making legal historians / R. B. Bernstein and Daniel J. Hulsebosch -- The landscape of disbelief : disestablishment and property in the early republic / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- "It cant be cald stealin" : customary law among civil war soldiers / Thomas C. Mackey -- Debating the Fourteenth Amendment : the promise and perils of using congressional sources / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Was the warning of strangers unique to colonial New England? / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger -- Ambiguities of free labor revisited : the convict labor question in progressive-era New York / Barry Cushman -- The long, broad, and deep civil rights movement : the lessons of a master scholar and teacher / Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- Counting as tool of legal history / John Wertheimer -- A mania for accumulation : the plea of moral insanity in gilded age will contests / Susannah L. Blumenthal -- The political economy of pain / John Fabian Witt -- An unexpected antagonist : courts, deregulation, and conservative judicial ideology, 1980-1992 / Reuel Schiller -- Bibliography of the scholarship of William E. Nelson.

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