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Volume 17 - Fall 1999

Book Reviews

Franz Wieacker, Tony Weir (trans.), and Reinhard Zimmermann, A History of Private Law in Europe, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 528. $110.00 (ISBN 0-19-825861-5).

Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre, eds., The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830–1940, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. 279. $14.95 (ISBN: 0-292-77707-8).

Wael B. Hallaq, A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-Fiqh, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 294. $98.95 (ISBN 0–860784568).

Rebecca Redwood French, The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 404. $37.50 (ISBN 0-8014-3084-4).

Charles R. Cutter, The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700–1810, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 225. $39.95 (ISBN 0-8263-1641-7).

Diane Kirkby, ed., Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xxv + 302. $37.50 (ISBN 0–19–553734–3).

Colin Imber, Ebu's-su ‘ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 288. $49.50 (ISBN 0-8047-2927-1).

Mark David Hall, The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742–1798, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Pp. x + 228. $37.50 (ISBN 0-8262-1103-8).

Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 353. $19.95 (ISBN 0-691-02793-5).

Mark Colvin, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. x + 294. $45.00 (ISBN 0–312–17327-X).

William J. Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. x + 396. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8078-2282-2), $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8078-4611-2).

David R. Owen and Michael C. Tolley, Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634–1776, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1995. Pp. xxxiii + 421. $45.00 (ISBN 0-89089-856-1).

Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 378. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-252-02297-1), $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-252-06600-6).

Jack Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. xvi + 439. $35.00 (ISBN 0-394-57858-9).

Lou Faulkner Williams, The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871–1872, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 197. $35.00 (ISBN 0-8203-11795-0).

Joanne L. Goodwin, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911–1929, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 284. $17.95 (ISBN 0–226–30393–4).

Grantland S. Rice, The Transformation of Authorship in America, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 230. $42.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-71123-4), $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-226-711124-2).

Estelle B. Freedman, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition, 1887–1974, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xvii + 458. $34.95 (ISBN 0–226–26149–2).

Lucy E. Salyer, Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xix + 338. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8078-2218-3), $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-8078-4530-2).

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