AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY (1776-1920)

Last Revision 2/19/07

 

Amar, Akhil Reed, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (1998).

Appleby, Joyce, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790’s (1984).

-----, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (1992).

Atiyah, P.S. The Rise and Fall of the Freedom of Contract (1979).

Ayers, Edward L. Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century American South (1984).

Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of American Revolution (1967).

Beard, Charles A. The Supreme Court and the Constitution (1912).

-----, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913).

Benedict, Michael Les. “Laissez-Faire and Liberty: A Re-evaluation of the Meaning and Origins of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism,” Law and History Review 3 (1985).

Berle, Adolph A. and Gardiner C. Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1968).

Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the City War (1990).

Blackmar, Elizabeth, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 (1989).

Blocker, Jack S., Jr., American Temperance Movements (1989).

Bloomfield, Maxwell, American Lawyers in A Changing Society, 1776-1876 (1976).

Bodenhamer, David J. and James W. Ely, Jr., eds., Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South (1984).

Bone, Robert G. “Normative Theory and Legal Doctrine in American Nuisance Law: 1850 to 1920,” Southern California Law Review 59 (1986).

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Mysterious Science of the Law (1941).

Boudin, Louis B. Government by Judiciary (1932).

Boyer, Paul S., Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (1978).

Brenner, Joel Franklin, “Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of Legal Studies 3 (1974).

Bright, Charles C. “The State in the United States During the Nineteenth Century,” in Statemaking and Social Movements, ed. Charles C. Bright and Susan Harding (1984).

Brock, William R. Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865-1900 (1984).

Bryce, James, Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901).

Bourdieu, Pierre, “The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field,” Hastings Law Journal 38 (1987).

Cherrington, Ernest, The Evolution of Prohibition in the United States of America (1920).

Christianson, Scott, With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America (1998).

Cohen, Felix S. The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen (1960).

Colvin, Mark, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America (1997).

Commons, John R., Legal Foundations of Capitalism (1924).

Cook, Charles M. The American Codification Movement: A Study of Antebellum Legal Reform (1981).

Cornell, Saul, The Other Founders:Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999).

Corwin, Edwin S. “The ‘Higher Law’ Background of American Constitutional Law,” Harvard Law Review 42 (1929).

-----, The Twilight of the Supreme Court (1934).

-----, “The Doctrine of Due Process of Law Before the Civil War,” Harvard Law Review 24 (1911).

-----, “The Basic Doctrine of American Constitutional Law,” Michigan Law Review 12 (1914).

-----, “Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review” Michigan Law Review 12 (1914).

-----, Liberty Against Government: The Rise, Flowering, and Decline of a Famous Juridical Concept (1948).

Cover, Robert M. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process (1975).

Crosskey, William W. Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States (1953).

Curtis, George B. “The Checkered Career of Parens Patriae: The State As Parent or Tyrant?” DePaul Law Review25 (1976).

Dargo, George, Jefferson’s Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions (1975).

Dawley, Alan, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).

Diggins, John P. The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism (1984).

Dodd, E. Merrick, Jr., American Business Corporations until 1860 (1954).

Duffy, John, A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866 (1968).

-----, A History of Public Health in New York City, 1866-1966 (1974).

-----, The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (1990).

Dunlavy, Colleen A. Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia (1994).

Dworkin, Ronald, Taking Rights Seriously (1978).

Edling, Max, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (2003).

Ellis, Richard E., The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States’ Right, and Nullification Crisis (1989).

Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (1995).

Eigen, Joel Peter, “Lesion of the Will: Medical Resolve and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian Insanity Trials,” Law and Society Review (1999).

Einhorn, Robin L., "The Civil War and Municipal Government in Chicago," in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays, ed. Maris A. Vinovskis (1990).

-----, Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 (1991).

-----, "Species of Property: The American Property Tax Uniformity Clauses Reconsidered," Journal of Economic History 61 (2001).

-----, "Patrick Henry's Case Against the Constitution: The Structural Problem With Slavery," Journal of the Early Republic 22 (2002).

-----, American Taxation, American Slavery (Chicago 2006).

Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (1995).

Ely, Richard T., Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth (1914).

Ericson, David F., The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates Over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery (1993).

Evans, George Heberton, Jr., Business Incorporations in the United States, 1800-1943 (1948).

Forbath, William E., Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991).

Farnham, Henry W. Chapters in the History of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860 (1938).

Farnham, Wallace D., “‘The Weakened Spring of Government’: A Study in Nineteenth Century American History,” American Historical Review 68 (1963).

Fede, Andrew, People Without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U. S. South (1992).

Feer, Robert A., “Shay’s Rebellion and the Constitution: A Study in Causation,” New England Quarterly 42 (1969).

Fehrenbacher, Don E., The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (1978).

-----, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations with Slavery (2001).

Feldberg, Michael, The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America (1980).

Ferguson, Robert A., Law and Letters in American Culture (1984).

Fine, Sidney, Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901 (1956).

Fisher, William W., “The Law of the Land: An Intellectual History of American Property Doctrine, 1776-1880,” Ph.D. dissertation, 1991.

-----, and David Kennedy, The Cannon of American Legal Thought (2006).

Flanigan, Daniel J., “Criminal Procedure in Slave Trials in the Antebellum South,” Journal of Southern History 40 (1974).

-----, The Criminal Law of Slavery and Freedom, 1800-1868 (1987).

Foner, Eric, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970).

-----, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988).

-----, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005).

Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison (1975).

Freehling, William W., The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (1991).

-----, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 (1995).

Freyer, Tony, “Reassessing the Impact of Eminent Domain in Early American Economic Development,” Wisconsin Law Review (1981).

-----, Producers Versus Capitalists: Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America (1994).

Friedman, Lawrence M., “Some Problems and Possibilities of American Legal History,” in The State of American History (1970).

-----, A History of American Law (1985).

-----, “Gerald Grob's The State and Mentally Ill: A Turning Point in the Study of the American Mental Hospital,” Reviews in American History (1990).

-----, Crime and Punishment in American History (1993).

Gates, Paul Wallace, History of Public Land Law Development (1968).

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1970-1920.

Gilje, Paul A. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (1987).

-----, Rioting in America (1999).

Gilmore, Grant, The Ages of American Law (1977).

Goebel, Julius, “Constitutional History and Constitutional Law,” Columbia Law Review 38 (1938).

-----, Felony and Misdemeanor: A Study in the History of Criminal Law (1937).

Goodrich, Carter, Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890 (1960).

Gordon, Robert W., “Introduction: J. Willard Hurst and the Common Law Tradition in American Legal Historiography,” Law and Society Review 10 (1976).

Grey, Thomas C., “Origins of the Unwritten Constitution: Fundamental Law in American Revolutionary Thought,” Stanford Law Review 30 (1978).

Griffin, Clifford S., Their Brothers’ Keepers: Moral Stewardship in the Untied States, 1800-1865 (1960).

Grimstead, David, American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War, new ed. (2003).

Grob, Gerald, The State and the Mentally Ill (1965).

-----, From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America (1991).

-----, The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill (1994).

Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (1993).

Grossberg, Michael, “Guarding the Altar: Physiological Restrictions and the Rise of State Intervention in Matrimony,” American Journal of Legal History 26 (1982).

-----, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (1985).

-----, A Judgment for Solomon: The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America (1996).

Gunn, L. Ray, The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800-1860 (1988).

Gutzman, K.R. Constantine, “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered: ‘An Appeal to the Real Laws of Our Country,’” Journal of Southern History 66 (2000).

Haines, Charles Grove, The Revival of Natural Law Concepts (1930).

Hale, Robert L., “Coercive Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State,” Political Science Quarterly 38 (1923).

-----, “Force and the State: A Comparison of ‘Political’ and ‘Economic’ Compulsion,” Columbia Law Review 35 (1935).

Hall, Kermit, “The Magic Mirror: American Constitutional and Legal History,” International Journal of Social Education 1 (1987).

-----, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History (1989).

Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine, Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diptheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (1999).

Handlin, Oscar, and Mary Flug Handlin, Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (1947).

-----, “Origins of the American Business Corporation,” in Enterprise and Secular Change, ed. Frederic C. Lane and Jelle C. Riemersma (1953).

Harley, C. Knick., “Oligopoly Agreement and the Timing of American Railroad Construction,” Journal of Economic History 42 (1982).

Hartog, Hendrik, Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870 (1973).

-----, “Pigs and Positivism,” Wisconsin Law Review (1985).

-----,“Lawyering, Husbands’ Rights, and ‘The Unwritten Law,’ in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of American History (1997).

-----, ed. Law in the American Revolution and the Revolution in the Law (1981).

Hartz, Louis, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania, 1776-1860 (1948).

-----, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution (1955).

Haskins, George L., Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801-15 (1981).

Hastings, W. G. “The Development of Law as Illustrated by the Decisions Relating to the Police Power of the State,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 39 (1900).

Hawes, Joseph M., Children in Urban Society: Juvenile Delinquency in Nineteenth-Century America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971).

Heath, Milton, Constructive Liberalism: The Role of the State in Economic Development in Georgia to 1860 (1954).

Hill, Marilyn Wood, Their Sisters’ Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 (1993).

Hindus, Michael, Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South, 1767-1878 (1974).

-----, “Black Justice Under White Law: Criminal Prosecutions of Black in Antebellum South Carolina,” Journal of American History (1976).

Hirsch, Adam Jay, The Rise of Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (1992).

Horwitz, Morton J., The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977).

-----, “Progressive Legal Historiography,” Oregon Law Review 63 (1984).

-----, The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (1992).

Hovenkamp, Herbert, Enterprise and American Law, 1863-1960 (1991).

Howard, Victor B., “The Black Testimony Controversy in Kentucky, 1866-1872,” Journal of Negro History 58 (1973).

Howington, Arthur F. What Saveth the Law: The Treatment of Slaves and Free Blacks in the State and Local Courts of Tennessee (1986).

Hughes, John S., In the Law’s Darkness: Isaac Ray and the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America (1986).

Hurst, James Willard, The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers (1950).

-----, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the United States (1956).

-----, Law and Social Process in United States History (1960).

-----, Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin, 1836-1915 (1964).

-----, The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970 (1970).

Hyman, Harold M. A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution (1973).

-----, and William Wiecek, Equal Justice Under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835-1875 (1982).

Michael Ignatieff, A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 (1978).

Jacobs, Clyde E. Law Writers and the Courts: The Influence of Thomas M. Cooley, Christopher G. Tiedeman, and John F. Dillon upon American Constitutional Law (1954).

John, Richard R. “Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic,” Studies in American Political Development 11 (1997).

Johnston, Norman, Kenneth Finkle, and Jeffery A. Cohen, Eastern State Penitentiary: A Crucible of Good Intentions (1994).

Kaczorowski, Robert J., “To Begin the Nation Anew: Congress, Citizenship, and Civil Rights after the Civil War,” American Historical Review 92 (1987).

Kairys, David, ed. The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (1982).

Kammen, Michael, A Machine that Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture (1986).

Kann, Mark E., Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy: Liberty and Power in the Early American Republic (2005).

Karsten, Peter, “Explaining the Fight Over the Attractive Nuisance Doctrine: A Kinder, Gentler Instrumentalism in the ‘Age of Formalism,’” Law and History Review 10 (1992).

-----, Heart Versus Head: Judge Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America (1997).

Katz, Stanley N. “The American Constitution: A Revolutionary Interpretation.” In Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, ed. Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II (1987).

-----, "The Strange Birth and Unlikely History of Constitutional Equality," The Journal of American History 75 (1988).

Keller, Morton, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (1977).

-----, “The Pluralist State: American Economic Regulation in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1930,” in Regulation and Perspective, ed. Thomas K. McCraw (1981).

-----, “(Jerry-) Building a New American State,” Reviews in American History 11 (1983).

-----, “Power and Rights: Two Centuries of American Constitutionalism,” Journal of American History 74 (1987).

Kelly, Alfred H., Winfred A Harbison, and Herman Belz, The American Constitution: It’s Origins and Development, 5^th ed. (1976).

Kennedy, Duncan, “Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication,” Harvard Law Review 89 (1976).

Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986).

-----, “The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and Ethics in Early American Political Discourse,” Journal of American History 74 (1987).

-----, “The Theory and Practice of American Legal History,” Harvard Law Review 106 (1993).

-----, Virtues of Liberalism (1998).

Koch, Adrienne and Harry Ammon, “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: An Episode in Jefferson's and Madison's Defense of Civil Liberties” William and Mary Quarterly 5 (1948).

Koeppel, Gerard T., Water for Gotham: A History (2001).

Kutler, Stanley, Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case (1971).

Lane, Roger, Policing the City: Boston, 1822-1885 (1981).

Larson, John Lauritz, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (2001).

Lerner, Max, “The Supreme Court and American Capitalism,” Yale Law Journal 42 (1933).

Levy, Leonard, The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw (1957).

-----, ed. American Constitutional Law: Historical Essays (1966).

Lewis, W. David, From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848 (1965).

Llewellyn, Karl N., The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study (1930).

-----, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals (1960).

-----, Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice (1962).

Main, Jackson Turner, The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788 (1961).

Mann, Michael, “The Autonomous Power of the State: It’s Origins, Mechanisms and Results,” in States in History, ed. John A. Hall (1986).

Masur, Lewis, Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture (1989).

McAfee, Ward M., “A Constitutional History of Railroad Rate Regulation in California, 1879-1911” Pacific Historical Review 37 (1968).

McCloskey, Richard G. The American Supreme Court (1960).

-----, Essays in Constitutional Law (1957).

McCraw, Thomas K. “Regulation in America: A Review Article,” Business History Review 49 (1975).

-----, Prophets of Regulation (1984).

-----, Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays (1981).

McCurdy, Charles, “Justice Field and the Jurisprudence of Government-Business Relations: Some Parameters of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism,” Journal of American History 61 (1975).

McDonald, Forrest, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (1985).

-----, States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (2000).

McDonald, Terrence J., “The Burden of Urban History: The Theory of the State in Recent American Social History,” Studies in American Political Development 3 (1989).

McEvoy, Arthur F. The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and the Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (1986).

McLaren, John P. S., “Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution—Some Lessons from Social History,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 3 (1983).

McLaurin, Melton A., Celia: A Slave (1991).

Miller, Perry, The Legal Mind in America (1962).

Mohr, James C. Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth Century America (1993).

Monkkonen, Eric H., “A Disorderly People? Urban Order in the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century,” Journal of American History (1981).

-----, Police in Urban America, 1860-1920 (1981).

-----, Crime and Justice in American History (1991).

-----, Murder in New York City (2000).

Moran, Richard, Knowing Right From Wrong: The Insanity Defense of Daniel McNaughtan. (1981).

-----, “The Modern Foundation for the Insanity Defense: The Cases of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843),” The Annals 477 (1985).

Morris, Richard B. Government and Labor in Early American (1946).

Morris, Thomas D., Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861 (1974).

-----, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (1996).

Mott, Rodney L. Due Process of Law (1926).

Murphey, Earl F. Water Purity: A Study of Legal Control of Natural Resources (1961).

Nash, A. E. Keir, “Fairness and Formalism in the Trials of Blacks in the State Supreme Courts of the Old South,” Virginia Law Review (1970).

-----, “In re Radical Interpretations of American Law: The Relation of Law and History,” Michigan Law Review (1983).

Nash, Gerald D., State Government and Economic Development: A History of Administrative Polices in California, 1849-1933 (1964).

Nedelsky, Jennifer, Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism: The Madisonian Framework and Its Legacy (1990).

Nelson, Daniel, Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920 2^nd ed. (1995).

Nelson, William E., “Emerging Notions of Modern Criminal Law in the Revolutionary Era: An Historical Perspective,” New York University Law Review 42 (1967).

-----, “Changing Conceptions of Judicial Review: The Evolution of Constitutional Theory in the States, 1790-1860,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 120 (1972).

-----, “The Impact of the Antislavery Movement upon Styles of Judicial Reasoning in Nineteenth Century America,” Harvard Law Review 87 (1974).

-----, Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830 (1975).

-----, The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900 (1982).

-----, The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine (1988).

Newmyer, R. Kent, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesmen of the Old Republic (1985).

-----, “Harvard Law School, New England Legal Culture, and the Antebellum Origins of American Jurisprudence,” Journal of American History 74 (1987).

Novak, William J., The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (1996).

-----, "The Legal Origins of the Modern American State," in Bryant Garth, Robert Kagan, and Austin Sarat, eds., Looking Back at Law's Century (2001).

-----, “The Pluralist State: The Convergence of Public and Private Power in America,” in Wendy Gamber, Michael Grossberg, and Hendrik Hartog, eds., American Public Life and the Historical Imagination (2003).

-----, "Private Wealth and Public Health: A Critique of Richard Epstein’s Defense of the ‘Old’ Public Health," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46 (Summer, 2003 Supplement).

-----, “The Not-So-Strange Birth of the Modern American State,” Law and History Review 24 (2006).

Orren, Karen, Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States (1991).

Paul, Arnold, Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887-1895 (1960).

Peabody, Susan Wade, Historical Study of Legislation Regarding Public Health in the States of New York and Massachusetts (1909).

Pickett, Robert S. House of Refuge: Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857. (1969).

Pincus, Samuel N., The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks and the Laws, 1870-1902 (1990).

Pisciotta, Alexander W., Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement (1994).

Pocock, J.G.A., The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975).

Pound, Roscoe, The Spirit of the Common Law (1921).

            -----, The Formative Era of American Law (1938).

Raeff, Marc, The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600-1800 (1983).

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1997).

Read, Conyers, ed. The Constitution Reconsidered (1938).

Reid, John Phillip, Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights (1986).

Rodgers, Daniel T., “Republicanism: The Career of a Concept,” Journal of American History 79 (1992).

Rose, Carol M., “The Comedy of the Commons: Custom, Commerce, and Inherently Public Property,” University of Chicago Law Review 53 (1986).

-----, Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership (1994).

Rosen, Christine Meisner, The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America (1986).

Rosen, George, “Cameralism and the Concept of Medical Police,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 27 (1953).

-----, A History of Public Health (1958)

Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (1962).

-----, Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age (1968).

Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann, Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936 (1972).

Rothman, David J., “The State as Parent: Social Policy in the Progressive Era,” in Doing Good: The Limits of Benevolence, ed. Willard Gaylin (1978).

-----, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (1971).

Ryan, Mary P., Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (1990).

Sandel, Michael J., Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982).

Scheiber, Harry N. Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861 (1968).

-----, “The Road to Munn: Eminent Domain and the Concept of Public Purpose in the State Courts,” Perspectives in American History 5 (1971).

-----, “Government and the Economy: Studies of the ‘Commonwealth’ Policy in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 3 (1972).

-----, “Property Law, Expropriation, and Resource Allocation by Government: The United States, 1789-1910,” Journal of Economic History 33 (1973).

-----, “American Constitutional History and the New Legal History,” Journal of American History 68 (1981).

-----, “Regulation, Property Rights, and Definition of “The Market”: Law and the American Economy Journal of Economic History 61 (1981).

-----, “Public Rights and the Rule of Law in American Legal History,” California Law Review 72 (1984).

-----, “Instrumentalism and Property Rights: A Reconsideration of American ‘Styles of Judicial Reasoning’ in the Nineteenth Century,” Wisconsin Law Review (1985).

Schiller, Reuel E., “Conflicting Obligations: Slave Law and the Late Antebellum North Carolina Supreme Court,” Virginia Law Review 78 (1992).

Schwartz, Phillip J., “Forging the Shackles: The Development of Virginia’s Criminal Code for Slaves,” in Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South, eds. David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr. (1984).

-- "Gabriel's Challenge; Slaves and Crime in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 90 (1982).

Steven L. Schlossman, Love and the American Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of “Progressive” Juvenile Justice, 1825-1920 (1977).

-----, Transforming Juvenile Justice: Reform Ideals and Institutional Realities, 1825-1920 (2005).

Schneider, Eric C., In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s, (1992).

Schneider, John C. Detroit and the Problem of Order, 1830-1880: A Geography of Crime, Riot, and Policing (1980).

Selvin, Molly, This Tender and Delicate: The Public Trust Doctrine in American Law and Economic Policy, 1789-1920 (1987).

Shah, Nayan, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001).

Shalhope, Robert E., “Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography,” William and Mary Quarterly 29 (1972).

-----, “Republicanism in Early American Historiography,” William and Mary Quarterly 39 (1982).

Shaw, Albert, “The American State and the American Man, “Contemporary Review 51 (1887).

Shaw, Ronald E., Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 (1966).

Sheldon, Randall G., Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A Critical Introduction to the History of Criminal Justice (2001).

Sheriff, Carol, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 (1996).

Singer, Joseph William, “The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld,” Wisconsin Law Review (1982).

Skocpol, Theda, “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research,” in Bringing the State Back In, ed. Peter R. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Scocpol (1985).

-----, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992).

Scotnicki, Andrew, Religion and the Development of the American Penal System (2000).

Sklar, Martin J., The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916 (1988).

Skowronek, Stephen, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982).

Slaughter, Thomas P., The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (1986).

Smith, James Morton. Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Seduction Laws and American Civil Liberties (1967).

-----, "The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 (1954).

Smith, Roger. “The Boundary Between Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England.” in Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in he Victorian Era, ed. Andrew Scull (1981).

Soifer, Aviam, “The Paradox of Paternalism and Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism: United States Supreme Court, 1888-1921,” Law and History Review5 (1987).

Stanley, Amy Dru, "Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation," Journal of American History, 75 (1988).

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