Author: Kessler, Amalia D.
Title: Inventing American exceptionalism : the origins of American adversarial legal culture, 1800-1877.
Description: New Haven ; London Yale University Press 2017. Orig. cloth binding. No dustjacket. xi,449 pp. (Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial--dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances--that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and source--and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe)--the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity ISBN 9780300198072.

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