Inventing American Exceptionalism : The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 / / Amalia D. Kessler
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Kessler Amalia D.
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| Titolo: |
Inventing American Exceptionalism : The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 / / Amalia D. Kessler
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (462 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 347.73 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sociological jurisprudence - United States |
| Culture and law - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The "Natural Elevation" of Equity -- 2. A Troubled Inheritance -- 3. The Non- Revolutionary Field Code -- 4. Cultural Foundations of American Adversarialism -- 5. Market Freedom and Adversarial Adjudication -- 6. The Freedmen's Bureau Exception -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inventing American Exceptionalism |
| ISBN: | 9780300224849 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910157410503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.