The Changing Landscape of 19th Century Courts

Nancy S. Marder

doi:10.1353/rah.2018.0065

The Changing Landscape of 19th Century Courts

Nancy S. Marder

Chicago-Kent College of Law

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Abstract

Book Review of:

Amalia D. Kessler. Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800–1877 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. 449 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.

Original language	American English
Journal	Reviews in American History
Volume	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2018.0065
State	Published - Sep 2018

Keywords

court systems
equity courts
chancery court
Field Code of 1848
Freedmen's Bureau

Disciplines

Law
Courts
Legal History

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