TY - BOOK ID - 78046050 TI - Law in American history. PY - 2012 SN - 1283427044 9786613427045 0199723141 9780199723140 9781283427043 9780195102475 6613427047 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - History. KW - History and criticism KW - United States KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78046050 AB - In the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century, G. Edward White takes up the central themes of American legal history from the earliest European settlements through the Civil War. Included in the coverage of this volume are the interactions between European and Amerindian legal systems in the years of colonial settlement; the crucial role of Anglo-American theories of sovereignty and imperial governance in facilitating the separation of the American colonies from the British ER -