New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History
Spring Edition, 2011
Compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College
Babcock, Barbara Allen. Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011. 392 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Banner, Stuart. American Property: A History of How, Why and What We Own. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 384 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Baugh, Joyce A. The Detroit Busing Case: Milliken v. Bradley and the Controversy over Desegregation. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 248 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Bernstein, David E. Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 208 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Billings, Roger and Frank J. Williams. Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America’s Greatest President. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 288 pp. (cloth, $40.00, ebook, $40.00).
Boman, Dennis K. Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. 328 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Boulware, Tyler. Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation Among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2011. 256 pp. (cloth, $69.95).
Brandwein, Pamela. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution. 282 pp. (cloth, $90.00).
Brown-Nagin, Tomeko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 608 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Collins, Ronald K. L. and Sam Chaltain. We Must Not be Afraid to be Free: Stories of Free Speech in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 448 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Davies, Sharon. Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 352 pp. (cloth, $27.95, paper, $18.95).
Davis, Richard. Justices and Journalists: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Media. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 264 pp. (cloth, $90.00, paper, $28.99).
De Laine Gona, Ophelia. Dawn of Desegregation: J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. 216 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Emanuel, Rachel L. and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. A More Noble Cause: Alexander P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 352 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Ford, Lisa. Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Harvard Historical Studies. 328 pp. (cloth, $49.95, paper, $24.95).
Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Paperback ed. 392 pp. (paper, $18.95).
Garland, David. Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 432 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Gaughan, Anthony J. The Last Battle of the Civil War: United States v. Lee, 1861-1883. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 272 pp. (cloth, $42.50).
Gordon, Robert W. and Morton J. Horwitz. Law, Society, and History: Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 456 pp. (cloth, $120.00).
Green, Steven K. The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 472 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Greenberg, Ivan. The Dangers of Dissent: The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. 344 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper’s Trial for Seditious Libel. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 168 pages. (cloth , $34.95, paper, $16.95).
Kelley, Blair Murphy. Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 280 pp. (cloth, $59.95, paper, $21.95).
Klopotek, Brian. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. 408 pp. (paper, $24.95).
LaCroix, Alison L. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 320 pp. (paper, $22.50).
Lawrence, Michael Anthony. Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal Justice in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 408 pp. (cloth, $90.00, paper, $29.99).
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, 2010. 376 pp. (cloth, $39.95.).
Mayeri, Serena. Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 382 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Maysilles, Duncan. Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South’s Greatest Environmental Disasters. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 2011. 344 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
McGinty, Brian. The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. (cloth, $29.95)
McKirdy, Charles. Lincoln Apostatate: The Matson Slave Case. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 176 pp. (cloth, $40.00, ebook, $40.00).
Morris, Jeffrey B. Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 418 pp. (cloth, $85.00).
Pearson, Ellen Holmes. Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 272 pp. (cloth, $42.50).
Pfeiffer, Michael J. The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 160 pp. (cloth, $40.00).
Posner, Eric A. The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 256 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Powe, Lucas A., Jr. The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. Paperback ed. 432 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Rossum, Ralph A. Supreme Court and Tribal Gaming: California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 216 pages. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $16.95).
Sehat, David. The Myth of American Religious Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Steigewait, Amy. Battle over the Bench: Senators, Interest Groups, and Lower Court Confirmations. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Constitutionalism and Democracy. 304 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Sweet, Martin. Merely Judgment: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Constitutionalism and Democracy. 244 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Thomas Tracy A. and Tracey Jean Boisseau. Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 285 pp. (cloth, $79.00, paper, $24.00).
Tomlins, Christopher. Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 636 pp. (cloth, $115.00, paper, $36.99, ebook, $30.00).
Warren, Kim Cary. The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 248 pp. (cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95).
Wert, Justin J. Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Constitutional Thinking. 296 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Young, Alfred F., Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, eds., Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation. New York: Knopf, 2011. 464 pp. (cloth, $32.50, ebook, $15.99).
(This list is compiled from publishers’ websites, legal history blogs, Amazon.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. The list includes titles published between summer 2010 and summer 2011. Authors and publishers are encouraged to submit information on forthcoming books to huebner@rhodes.edu).
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