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A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction : a nation of rights / Laura F. Edwards, Duke University.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New histories of American lawPublisher: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: xii, 212 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107401341
  • 1107401348
  • 9781107008793
  • 1107008794
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF366 .E318 2015
Contents:
Introduction -- The United States and its use of the people -- The Confederacy and its legal contradictions -- Enslaved Americans, emancipation, and the future legal order -- The federal government and the reconstruction of the legal order -- The possibilities of rights -- The power of law and the limits of rights -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Circulating Book Collection Circulating Book Collection Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk General collection 349.7309 E26L 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002464715
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.

Introduction -- The United States and its use of the people -- The Confederacy and its legal contradictions -- Enslaved Americans, emancipation, and the future legal order -- The federal government and the reconstruction of the legal order -- The possibilities of rights -- The power of law and the limits of rights -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay.

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