Common Law in Colonial America, Volume II: The Middle Colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730

by William Edward Nelson

William E. Nelson's first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199937753
• ISBN13: 9780199937752
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"