Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The United States and Its Use of the People
- 2 The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions
- 3 Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order
- 4 The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order
- 5 The Possibilities of Rights
- 6 The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The United States and Its Use of the People
- 2 The Confederacy and Its Legal Contradictions
- 3 Enslaved Americans, Emancipation, and the Future Legal Order
- 4 The Federal Government and the Reconstruction of the Legal Order
- 5 The Possibilities of Rights
- 6 The Power of Law and the Limits of Rights
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- A Legal History of the Civil War and ReconstructionA Nation of Rights, pp. 191 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015