:: 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
Fall Edition, 2012
Compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College
Amar, Akhil Reed. America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By. New York: Basic Books, 2012. 640 pp. (paper, $29.99).
Argersinger, Peter H. Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Politics of Apportionment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 352 pp. (cloth, $95.00).
Ball, Howard. At Liberty to Die: The Battle for Death with Dignity in America. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 224 pp. (cloth, $30.00).
Banks, Christopher P. and John Blakeman. The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. 362 pp. (cloth, $49.95, ebook).
Bergmann, William H. The American National State and the Early West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 304 pp. (cloth, $90.00, ebook).
Boessenecker, John. When Law Was in the Holster: The Frontier Life of Bob Paul. Norman, Okl.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. 464 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 608 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $24.95).
Casto, William R. The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. 296 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $24.95, ebook).
Charles, Douglas. The FBI’s Obscene File: J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau’s Crusade Against Smut. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 200 pp. (cloth, $24.95).
Childers, Christopher. The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2012. American Political Thought. 384 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Dauber, Michael Landis. The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the American Welfare State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 378 pp. (cloth, $75.00, paper, $25.00, ebook).
Donalson, Daniel G. The Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War I: Using Wartime Loyalty Laws for Revenge and Profit. El Paso, Tex: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012. Law and Society: Recent Scholarship. 200 pp. (cloth, $67.00).
Ely, James, Jr. The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. 264 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $24.95, ebook).
Finkelman, Paul and Roberta Sue Alexander, eds. Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie: A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012. Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest. 360 pp. (cloth, $49.95).
Flood, Dawn Rae. Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Women in American History. 256 pp. (cloth, $55.00, ebook).
Fox, Cybelle. Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives. 416 pp. (cloth, $80.00, paper, $35.00, ebook).
Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph. Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. A Project of First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. 248 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Gold, David. An Exemplary Whig: Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 272 pp. (cloth, $75.00, ebook).
Gona, Ophelia De Laine. Dawn of Desegregation: J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. 216 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $29.95, ebook).
Gould, Eliga H. Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 344 pp. (cloth, $45.00, ebook).
Hagan, John. Who are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. Paperback ed. (paper, $29.95, ebook).
Joseph, Anthony M. From Liberty to Liberality: The Transformation of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1776-1820. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 220 pp. (cloth, $65.00).
Kersten, Andrew E. Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012. 320 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $18.00, ebook).
Klarman, Michael J. From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 288 pp. (cloth, $27.95).
Lichtman, Robert M. The Supreme Court and McCarthy Era Repression: One Hundred Decisions. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 312 pp. (cloth, $60.00, ebook).
Littlejohn, Jeffrey L. and Charles H. Ford. Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 320 pp. (cloth, $45.00, ebook)
Long, Emma. The Church-State Debate: Religion, Education, and the Establishment Clause in Post War America. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012. 288 pp. (cloth, $120.00).
McCraw, Thomas K. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 496 pp. (cloth, $35.00, ebook).
Masur, Kate. An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 376 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $25.95, ebook).
Minow, Martha. In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 320 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Myrsiades, Linda. Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial. Philadelphia: Lehigh University Press, 2012. 267 pp. (cloth $80.00).
Peppers, Todd C. and Ward, Artemus. In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 2013. 472 pp. Paperback ed. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $22.50, ebook).
Perotti, Rosanna, ed. The Clinton Presidency and the Constitutional System. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2012. 336 pp. (cloth, $49.95).
Posner, Eric A. The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 256 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Rabban, David M. Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 568 pp. (cloth, $99.00).
Rasmussen, Jamie Pamela. The Missouri State Penitentiary: 170 Years Inside “The Walls.” Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2012. 136 pp. (paper, $16.95).
Reid, John Phillip. Legitimating the Law: The Struggle for Judicial Competency in Early National New Hampshire. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. 252 pp. (cloth, $48.00).
Riser, R. Volney. Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. 336 pp. Paperback ed. (cloth, $40.00, paper, $24.95, ebook).
Rutherglen, George. Civil Rights in the Shadow of Slavery: The Constitution, Common Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 224 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Schweninger, Loren. Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 256 pp. (cloth, $49.95, ebook).
Schorr, David. The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012. 256 pp. (cloth, $65.00, ebook).
Steffes, Tracy L. School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 204 pp. (cloth, $40.00, ebook).
Stuart, Douglas T. Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. 358 pp. Paperback ed. (cloth, $45.00, paper, $27.95, ebook).
Tarr, G. Alan. Without Fear or Favor: Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability in the States. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. 280 pp. (cloth, $85.00, paper, $27.95, ebook).
Thompson, Peter and Peter S. Onuf. State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Jeffersonian America. 336 pp. (cloth, $49.50, ebook).
Weil, Patrick. The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. 224 pp. Paperback ed. (paper, $34.95).
Weiner, Dana Elizabeth. Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. 325 pp. (cloth, $38.00).
Williams, Keira V. Gendered Politics in the Modern South: The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. 272 pp. (cloth, $39.95, ebook).
Witkowski, Monica C. Women at Law in Early Colonial Maryland. El Paso, Tex.: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012. Law and Society: Recent Scholarship. 230 pp. (cloth, $70.00).
Woeste, Vicky. Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012). 424 pp. (cloth, $55.00, ebook).
(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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