دانلود کتاب Law's Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America

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Cover
Half-title
Series-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why Criminal Law?
Revolution and Intertextual Readings of Law
1 Criminal Law Out-of-Doors: Ebenezer Richardson, Levi Ames, and the Uses of Punishment in Revolutionary Boston
“Exhibit an Atrocious Volume”
The Forms of Law
Trial as Performative Drama
A Felon’s Progress
Theft and Murder
2 “The Language of Law Is a Vulgar Tongue”
Interpretations of Vernacular Legal Culture
Hidden Transcripts and the Art of Criminal Self-Invention
Legal Storytelling as Subversive Act
Politicizing Vernacular Legal Culture
3 Local Justice, Transatlantic Justice: Joseph Mountain, William Beadle, and Competing Legal Narratives in Connecticut
The Art of Flight, The Art of Writing
Competing Legal Narratives
Casting Out Evil from Their Midst
4 The Problem of Punishment in an Age of Revolution
Inventing the Bloody Code
“Sanguinary Law Is a Political Distemper”
Imagining Law as Violence
5 The Statute Imagined: John Young and the New York Protest Against the Surgeons
Popular Protest and the Making of a Law
Popular Protest and the Unmaking of a Law
Conclusion
An Untidy Story of Legal Origins
Bibliography
Archival Collections
Newspapers, Periodicals
Legislation and Law Reports
Books, Articles, Reports, and dissertations
Index