Law's Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America

by Steven Wilf

Book Overview

Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance against England, the proliferation of revolutionary legal language became intimately intertwined with politics. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521196906
• ISBN13: 9780521196901
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"