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  • Freedom Bound

    Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • In the Matter of Nat Turner

    A Speculative History

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical caricature of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    In the Matter of Nat Turner

    A Speculative History

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist preacher to recover the haunting persona of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

    Justice Beyond and Between

    by Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner, Saba Mahmood, Wendy Brown, Daniel Boyarin, Ramona Naddaff, Kathryn Abrams0, Christopher Tomlins1, Sara Ludin2, Sarah Song3, Beth Piatote4, Daniel Fisher5, Samera Esmeir6, Rebecca McLennan7 ...
    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints.Looking ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Legal History

    Edited by Markus D. Dubber, Christopher Tomlins ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly international and comparative in scope and orientation. Drawing on scholarship from around ... Read more

    $172.99 USD

  • The Many Legalities of Early America

    Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins, Bruce H. Mann ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of “legality” to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, whether as individuals, groups, classes, communities, or states ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought

    Edited by Justin Desautels-Stein, Christopher Tomlins ...
    For more than a century, law schools have trained students to 'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of us? In this book, thirty leading international scholars - including Louis Assier-Andrieu, Marianne Constable, Yves Dezalay, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Bryant G. Garth, Peter Goodrich, Duncan Kennedy, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Escaping Salem:The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    by Richard Godbeer ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth. Now Richard Godbeer describes this "other witch hunt" in a concise, fascinating narrative that illuminates the colonial world and shatters the stereotype of early New Englanders as quick to accuse and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Jonathan Edwards: A Life

    by George M. Marsden ...
    Jonathan Edwards (17031758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century.In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their interpretations of slavery in Scripture led to a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • America's God

    From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD