:: 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, 2011
Compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College
Bailey, Michael A. and Forrest Maltzman. The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. 217 pp. (cloth, $75.00, paper, $26.95).
Baum, Howell S. Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. (cloth, $75.00, paper, $24.95).
Berkowitz, Daniel and Karen B. Clay. The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. 240 pp. (cloth, $34.95, ebook, $34.95).
Brookhiser, Richard. James Madison. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 287 pp. (cloth, $26.99).
Crane, Elaine Forman. Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. (cloth, $35.00).
Dale, Elizabeth. Chicago’s Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. 188 pp. (cloth, $32.00).
Davis, Hugh. “We Will Be Satisfied with Nothing Less”: The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. (cloth, $45.00).
Emanuel, Anne. Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2011. Studies in the Legal History of the South. 424 pp. (cloth, $34.95, ebook, $34.95).
Feimster, Crystal. Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. Paperback ed. 336 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Graham, D. Kurt. To Bring Law Home: The Federal Judiciary in Early National Rhode Island. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 194 pp. (cloth, $32.00).
Grossberg, Michael and Christopher Tomlins, eds. The Cambridge History of Law in America. 3 vols. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Paperback ed. (paper, $150.00).
Grossman, Joanna L. and Lawrence M. Friedman, Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. 448 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Hall, Kermit L. and Melvin I. Urofsky. New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 232 pp. (cloth $34.95, paper $17.95).
Hogue, James K. Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Paperback ed. 248 pp. (paper, $23.00).
Jacobs, James B. and Kerry T. Cooperman, Breaking the Devil’s Pact: the Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 310 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 432 pp. (cloth, $40.00).
McMahon, Kevin J. Nixon’s Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and its Political Consequences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 336 pp. (cloth, $33.95).
Mannino, Edward F. Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. 328 pp. (cloth, $44.95).
Margolies, Daniel S. Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 378 pp. (cloth, $69.95).
Martelle, Scott. The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 256 pp. (cloth, $26.95).
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. Paperback ed. 392 pp. (paper, $18.95).
Myers, Barton. Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. Paperback ed. 216 pp. (paper, $18.95).
Newman, Richard and James Mueller, eds. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. 288 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Nunns, Stephen. Acting Up: Free Speech, Pragmatism, and American Performance in the Late Twentieth Century. El Paso, Tex.: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2011. Law and Society: Recent Scholarship. 292 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
O’Brien, David M. Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the Supreme Court. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 150 pp. (cloth, $29.95, ebook, $28.99).
Ramey, R. Chase. Student First Amendment Speech and Expression Rights: Armbands to Bong Hits. El Paso, Tex.: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2011. Law and Society: Recent Scholarship 180 pp. (cloth, $65.00).
Schafer, Judith Kelleher. Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Paperback ed. 248 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Sharfstein, Daniel J. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. (cloth, $27.95, ebook, $14.99).
Sharpe, Robert J. The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 192 pp. (cloth, $50.00).
Sitkoff, Harvard. Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America. Lexington, Ken.: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 232 pp. (cloth, $50.00, ebook, $50.00).
Stuntz, William J. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 432 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Tanehaus, David S. The Constitutional Rights of Children: In re Gault and Juvenile Justice. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 176 pp. (cloth, $29.95, paper, $16.95).
Thomas, Karen Kruse. Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 328 pp. (cloth, $69.95, paper, $24.95).
Unger, Harlow Giles. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2011. (cloth, $17.50, paper, $11.90)
Waldrep, Christopher. Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Studies in the Legal History of the South. Paperback ed. 328 pp. (paper, $24.95, ebook, $24.95).
Waldrep, Christopher and Donald G. Nieman, eds., Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2011. Studies in the Legal History of the South. Paperback ed. 264 pp. (paper, $24.95, ebook, $24.95).
Wang, Xi. The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Studies in the Legal History of the South. Paperback ed. 480 pp. (paper, $26.95, ebook, $26.95).
White, Jonathan W. Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 224 pp. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (cloth, $49.95, paper, $18.95).
Wood, Gordon. The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 385 pp. (cloth, $29.95, ebook, $14.95).
(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 2010-2011. Authors and publishers are encouraged to submit information on forthcoming books to Huebner@rhodes.edu.)
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