The people and their peace : legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary South

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The people and their peace : legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary South

Laura F. Edwards

University of North Carolina Press, 2009

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-410) and index

Contents of Works

  • All was chaos in our legal world : excavating localized law from beneath the layers of southern history
  • Keeping the peace : people's proximity to law
  • Bread from chaff: defining offenses against the peace
  • Possession and the personality of property: the material basis of authority
  • Wasted substance: the operation and regulation of patriarchy
  • Subjects vs. rights-holding individuals
  • New states : freemen as consistent units of measure
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