New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History
Fall Edition, 2009
(compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College)
Abrams, Paula. Cross Purposes: Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education. Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan Press, 2009. 296 pp. (cloth, $65.00).
Bakken, Gordon Morris and Brenda Farrington. Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Law in the American West. 296 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Balough, Brian. A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 414 pp. ($85.00, cloth; $23.99 paper).
Baum, Dale. Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. 310 pp. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War, (cloth, $45.00).
Beeman, Richard. Plain, Honest, Men: The Making of the American Constitution. New York: Random House, 2009. 514 pp. (paper, $18.00).
Bernstein, R. B. The Founding Fathers Reconsidered. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 238 pp. (cloth, $17.95).
Bilder, Mary, Maeva Marcus, R. Kent Newmyer, eds. Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 232 pp. (cloth, $85.00).
Blair, William A. and Karen Fisher Younger, eds. Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 248 pp. (cloth, $30.00).
Burns, James McGregor. Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Press, 2009. 336 pp. (cloth, $27.95).
Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. 320 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Carey, Allison C. On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2009. 286 pp. (cloth, $59.50).
Cox, Thomas H. Gibbons v. Ogden: Law and Society in the Early Republic. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2009. 264 pp. (cloth, $26.95).
Ellis, Mark R. Law and Order in Buffalo Bill’s Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Law in the American West. 298 pp. (paper, $24.95).
Fisk, Catherine L. Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 376 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Friedman, Barry. The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009. 624 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations. Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press, 2009. 336 pp. Studies in the Legal History of the South. (paper, $24.95).
Goluboff, Risa. The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 384 pp. (paper, $18.95).
Graham, D. Curt. To Bring Law Home: The Federal Judiciary in Early National Rhode Island. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. 194 pp. (cloth, $32.00).
Greenburg, Cheryl Lynn. To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. 200 pp. (cloth, $32.95).
Hill, Rebecca N. Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2099. 413 pp. (cloth, $89.95, $24.95, paper).
Kautz, Steven, et al, eds. The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 328 pp. (cloth, $49.95).
Lane, Frederick S. American Privacy: The 400-Year History of America’s Most Contested Right. Boston: Beacon Press. 304 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Lynd, Straughton. Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution. 2d. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 312 pp. (paper, $23.99).
MacLean, Harry N. The Past is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2009. 288 pp. (cloth, $25.95).
Majewski, John. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 240 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Maltz, Earl M. Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2009. 344 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Mannino, Edward F. Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. 328 pp. (cloth, $44.95).
McGinty, Brian. John Brown’s Trial. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 384 pp. (paper, $27.95).
Miller, James A. Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. 264 pp. (cloth, $55.00, paper, $27.95).
Neal, Bill. Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style. Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech University Press, 2009. 356 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Powe, Lucas A. The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 432 pp. (paper, $22.95).
SenGupta, Gunja. From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 333 pp. (cloth, $48.00).
Shiell, Timothy C. Campus Hate Speech on Trial. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2009. 256 pp. ($35.00, cloth, $16.95, paper).
Solomon, Burt. FDR v. The Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy. New York: Walker & Company, 2009. 330 pp. (cloth, $26.00).
Summers, Mark Wahlgren. A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 344 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Urofsky, Melvin. Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. New York: Pantheon, 2009. 976 pp. (cloth, $40.00).
Walker, Anders. The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 256 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Wertheimer, John. Law and Society in the South: North Carolina Court Cases and the Social History Behind Them. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 224 pp. New Directions in Southern History. (cloth, $50.00).
Woods, Thomas E. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman. Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government v. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. 272 pp. ($15.00, paper).
(This list is compiled from publishers’ websites and Amazon.com and includes titles. Authors are encouraged to submit information on upcoming books to huebner@rhodes.edu )
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