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• Before Eminent Domain: Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good (Sep 20, 2010)
  Susan Reynolds. Published 2010. Order online through The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3353-7. In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private …
• Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Sep 20, 2010)
  James M. Donovan. Published 2010. Order online through The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3363-6. James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that these juries, …
• Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Aug 16, 1988)
  Michael Grossberg. Published August 1988. Order online through The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-0-8078-4225-6. Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. …
• The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (Jun 30, 2002)
  Robert J. Steinfeld. Published June 2002. Order online through The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5452-5. Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor–labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon–Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements …
• Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878 (Jul 2, 1980)
  Micheal Stephen Hindus. Published July 1980. Order online through The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 9-780-8078-1417-8. This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts–an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state–chose the penitentiary in …