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Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White-author of the ongoing, multi-volume Law in American History-offers a compact overview that sheds light on the impact of law on a number of key social issues. Rather than offer a straight chronological history, the book instead traces important threads woven throughout our nation's past, looking at how law shaped Native American affairs, slavery, business, and home life, as well as how it has dealt with criminal and civil offenses. White shows that law has not always been used to exemplary ends. For instance, a series of decisions by the Marshall court essentially marginalized Amerindians, indigenous people of the Americas, reducing tribes to wards of the government. Likewise, law...ISBN : 9780199766000

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Author

White, G. Edward

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199354344

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Law, Humanities

Rating

3.31 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14