LEADER 03194nam 22005295 450 001 9910157410503321 005 20230810001559.0 010 $a9780300224849 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300224849 035 $a(CKB)3710000000984175 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773631 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001661670 035 $a(DE-B1597)486432 035 $a(OCoLC)967392540 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300224849 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000984175 100 $a20190920d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInventing American Exceptionalism $eThe Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 /$fAmalia D. Kessler 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (462 pages) 225 0 $aYale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-19807-8 311 $a0-300-22484-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The "Natural Elevation" of Equity --$t2. A Troubled Inheritance --$t3. The Non- Revolutionary Field Code --$t4. Cultural Foundations of American Adversarialism --$t5. Market Freedom and Adversarial Adjudication --$t6. The Freedmen's Bureau Exception --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aA highly engaging account of the developments-not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural-that gave rise to Americans' distinctively lawyer-driven legal culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial-dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances-that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and sources-and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe)-the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity. 410 0$aYale Law Library series in legal history and reference. 606 $aSociological jurisprudence$zUnited States 606 $aCulture and law$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$2fast 615 0$aSociological jurisprudence 615 0$aCulture and law 676 $a347.73 700 $aKessler$b Amalia D.$01246544 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910157410503321 996 $aInventing American Exceptionalism$92890257 997 $aUNINA