:: BookNotes::
Booknotes offers a list of new and recent books published in U. S. Constitutional/Legal History, posted twice a year in fall and spring.
H-Law Board member Tim Huebner compiles the Booknotes listing from H-LAW reviews, The Chronicle of Higher Education, publishers' websites, and Amazon.com. Authors and publishers are encouraged to submit information on upcoming books. Contact Tim Huebner at huebner@rhodes.edu.
New Books in U.S. Constitutional & Legal History
Spring Edition, 2012
Compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College
Adler, Jean. The Affair of the Veiled Murderess: An Antebellum Scandal and Mystery. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. 313 pp. (cloth, $24.95, ebook).
Baker, H. Robert. Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 216 pp. (cloth $34.95, paper, $16.95).
Bates, Denise E. The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2012. 280 pp. (cloth, $35.95, ebook).
Bernstein, R.B. The Founding Fathers Reconsidered. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Paperback ed. 254 pp. (paper, $14.95).
Bessler, John D. Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eight Amendment. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. 464 pp. (cloth, $39.95, ebook).
Billias, George Athan. American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989: A Global Perspective. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 560 pp. paperback ed. (paper, $28.00).
Blair, William A. and Karen Fisher Younger. Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 248 pp. paperback ed. (cloth, $32.00, paper, $21.95).
Bodenhamer, David J. The Revolutionary Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 288 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Braukman, Stacy. Communists and Perverts Under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2012. 250 pp. (cloth, $69.95).
Broadwater, Jeff. James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 296 pp. (cloth, $30.00).
Carpenter, Dale. Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas : How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 345 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Cottrol, Robert J. The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Studies in the Legal History of the South. 360 pp. (cloth, $69.95, paper, $24.95).
Crouch, Barry A. and Donaly E. Brice, The Governor’s Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870-1873. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2012. 312 pp. (cloth, $40.20).
Crowe, Justin. Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. 328 pp. (cloth, $80.00, paper, $35.00).
Curtis, Christopher Michael. Jefferson’s Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 272 pp. (cloth, $90.00).
Dale, Elizabeth. Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 184 pp. (paper, $23.99).
Decherney, Peter. Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 304 pp. (cloth, $34.50).
Deslippe, Dennis. Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 296 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
DeWitt, Petra. Degrees of Allegiance: Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri’s German-American Community during World War I. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012. Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest. 284 pp. (cloth, $39.96).
Dorsen, David M. Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 498 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Dudziak, Mary. War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. (cloth, $24.95).
Elkind, Sarah S. How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 288 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Finkelman, Paul and Donald R. Kennon, eds. Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012. 264 pp. (cloth, $39.96).
Fletcher, Matthew L. M. The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grant Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2012. 257 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Fliter, John A. and Derek S. Hoff. Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 224 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Frazer, Gregg L. Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation, Revolution. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 296 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Gerber, Scott Douglas. A Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1607-1787. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (cloth, $95.00).
Green, Steven K. The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 294 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Greenberg, Ivan. Surveillance in America: Critical Analysis of the FBI, 1920s to the Present. 398 pp. Landham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 398 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
Greenhouse, Linda. The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. (paper, $11.95)
Hartog, Hendrik. Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 353 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Haefeli, Evan. New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty. Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Early American Studies. 384 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 224 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Holzer, Harold. Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Tex, Context, and Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 213 pp. (cloth, $24.95).
Hull, N.E.H. The Woman Who Dared to Vote: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony. Lawrence, Kan.:
University Press of Kansas, 2012. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 232 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Jardim, Tomaz. The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 276 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Joens, David A. From Slave to State Legislator: John W.E. Thomas, Illinois’ First African American Lawmker. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 304 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Kaczorowski, Robert J. Fordham University School of Law: A History. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. 336 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
King, Anthony. The Founding Fathers v. the People: Paradoxes of American Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 242 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Kretsedemas, Philip. The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 213 pp. (cloth, $84.50, paper, $27.50).
LaCroix, Alison. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 320 pp. (cloth, $35.00, paper, $22.50).
Lendler, Marc. Gitlow v. New York: Every Idea an Incitement. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 184 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Lentz-Smith, Adriane. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 288 pp. paperback ed. (cloth, $37.00, paper, $22.50).
Luff, Jennifer. Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 272 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Lukens, Patrick D. A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy over Whiteness. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2012. 256 pp. (cloth, $50.00).
Lurie, Jonathan. William Howard Taft: Tales of a Progressive Conservative. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 230 pp. (cloth, $90.00, ebook).
Lyon, Cherstin M. Persons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2012. 256 pp. (cloth, $84.50, paper, $30.95, ebook).
Mack, Kenneth W. Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 330 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Magliocca, Gerard N. The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. 248 pp. (cloth, $40.00).
Mashaw, Jerry L. Creating the Administrative Constitution: the Lost One Hundred Years of Administrative Law. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012. 448 pp. (cloth, $75.00).
McDermott, Stacy Pratt. The Jury in Lincoln’s America. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012. Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest. 272 pp. (cloth, $43.96).
Meyerson, Michael I. Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012. 320 pp. (cloth, $32.50).
Michelmore, Molly C. Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism. Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Politics and Culture in Modern America. 248 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Neely, Mark E. Jr. Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 408 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Olivas, Michael A. No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 208 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 416 pp. paperback ed. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $24.95).
Raphael, Ralph. Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive. New York: Knopf, 2012. 336 pp. (cloth, $19.40).
Reilly, Elizabeth, ed. Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment: The Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2012. 125 pp. (cloth, $22.95).
Rose, Mark H. and Raymond A. Mohl. Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939., 3rd
ed. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2012. 208 pp. (paper, $24.95).
Roth, Randolph. American Homicide. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 672 pp. (cloth, $47.50, paper, $22.50).
Schafer, Axel. R. Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America. Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Politics and Culture in Modern America. 288 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Shugerman, Jed Handelsman. The People’s Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 381 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Stone, Amy. Gay Rights at the Ballot Box. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 272 pp. (cloth, $67.50, paper, $22.50).
Stout, Lee. A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women. College Station, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 232 pp. (cloth, $24.95).
Temkin, Moshik. The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. Paperback ed., 344 pp. (cloth, $35.00, paper, $25.00).
Titus, Jill Ogline. Brown’s Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 279 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Tsesis, Alexander. For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. (cloth, $29.95).
Walker, Samuel. Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 548 pp. (cloth, $115.00).
White, G. Edward. Law in American History, vol. 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 672 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
(This list is compiled from H-LAW reviews, publishers’ websites, Amazon.com and the Chronicle of Higher Education. The list includes titles published between winter and spring 2011-2012. Authors and publishers are encouraged to submit information on forthcoming books to Huebner@rhodes.edu.)
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