3D SER., 50, NO. 1 (JANUARY 1993)
Forum Explaining the Law in Early American History—A Symposium
Stanley N. Katz, Introduction3
Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Turning Points and the Relevance of Colonial Legal History7
Terri L. Snyder, Legal History of the Colonial South: Assessment and Suggestions18
Richard J. Ross, The Legal Past of Early New England: Notes for the Study of Law, Legal Culture, and Intellectual History28
David Thomas Konig, A Summary View of the Law of British America42
The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation
Pauline Maier
51
The Forfeitures at Salem, 1692
David C. Brown
85
The “Ordinance” of 1784?
Richard P. McCormick
112
Forum American Law and the American Revolution
J. R. Pole, Reflections on American Law and the American Revolution123
Peter Charles Hoffer, Custom as Law: A Comment on J. R. Pole&#;s “Reflections”160
Bruce H. Mann, The Evolutionary Revolution in American Law: A Comment on J. R. Pole&#;s “Reflections”168
James A. Henretta and James D. Rice, Law as Litigation: An Agenda for Research176
Trivia
Reviews of Books
Shapiro, “Beyond Reasonable Doubt” and “Probable Cause”: Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence. By Herbert A. Johnson 182
Schambra, As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Essays by Martin Diamond. By H. Jefferson Powell 184
Presser, The Original Misunderstanding: The English, the Americans, and the Dialectic of Federalist Jurisprudence. By Knud Haakonssen 186
A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics, and Law, 1791&#;1991, ed. Lacey and Haakonssen. By George A. Billias 189
Sinopoli, The Foundations of American Citizenship: Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtue. By David C. Williams 191
Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, ed. Derounian-Stodola. By Pattie Cowell 194
Sacks, The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450&#;1700. By Henry Roseveare 196
Watson, Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-Physicians of Colonial New England. By Ronald L. Numbers 198
Murphy, Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760&#;1860. By Ronald L. Numbers 198
Cassedy, Medicine in America: A Short History. By Ronald L. Numbers 198
Carr, Menard, and Walsh, Robert Cole&#;s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. By Martin H. Quitt 205
Martin, The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson. By David Scofield Wilson 209
Schuldiner, Gifts and Works: The Post-Conversion Paradigm and Spiritual Controversy in Seventeenth&#;Century Massachusetts. By Allen C. Guelzo211
Smith, Breaking the Bonds: Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730&#;1830. By Lee Chambers-Schiller 212
Burke, Mohawk Frontier: The Dutch Community of Schenectady, New York, 1661&#;1710. By Robert V. Wells 214
Harding, Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century: The British Expedition to the West Indies, 1740&#;1742. By Richard Middleton 216
West, Gunpowder, Government and War in the Mid&#;Eighteenth Century. By Richard Middleton 217
Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745&#;1815. By Peter C. Mancall 219
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, ed. Greene and Pole. By Philip Lawson 221
Alexander, The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History of News Coverage. By Richard B. Bernstein and Stephen L. Schecter 224
Ziff, Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States. By Robert A. Ferguson 226
Bowling, The Creation of Washington, D. C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital. By James Tagg 228
Wright, The Transformation of Charity in Postrevolutionary New England. By Anne M. Boylan 230
Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. By Stephen Innes 232
Travail et Loisir dans Les Sociétés Pré-Industrielles, ed. Karsky and Marienstras. By Stephen Innes 232
Nicoll, Larkin, Kornhauser, and Jaffee, Meet Your Neighbors—New England Portraits, Painters, and Society, 1790&#;1850. By Claudia L. Bushman and Richard L. Bushman 235
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