From the Book - Third edition.
Preface to the third edition
Beginnings: American law in the colonial period
From the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century: 1776-1850. Republic of bees
Outposts of the law: the frontier and the civil law fringe
Law and the economy: 1776-1850
Law of personal status: wives, paupers, and slaves
Law of commerce and trade
Crime and punishment: and a footnote on tort
American law to the close of the nineteenth century. Blood and gold: some main themes in the law in the last half of the nineteenth century
Judges and courts: 1850-1900
Procedure and practice: an age of reform
Administrative law and regulation of business
Commerce, labor, and taxation
Legal profession: the training and literature of law
Legal profession: at work
Twentieth century. Leviathan comes of age
Internal legal culture in the twentieth century: lawyers, judges, and law books
Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law
Crime and punishment in the twentieth century
Family law in the twentieth century
