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Volume 27 - Fall 2009

Book Reviews

James Q. Whitman, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 288. $40.00 (ISBN 978-0-300-11600-7).

Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early America History and Culture, 2005. Pp. 390. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8078-2950-1); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8078-5832-3).

Brian McGinty, Lincoln and the Court, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 375. $27.95 (ISBN 978-0-674-02655-1).

Amalia D. Kessler, A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 391. $55.00 (ISBN 978-0-300-11397-6).

Richard E. Ellis, Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 265. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-19-532356-6).

Rebecca M. McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941, New York, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 505. $75 cloth (ISBN 978-0-521-83096-6); $24.99 paper (ISBN 978–0–521–53783–4).

Jessica Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 240. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8078-3104-5); $22.50 paper (ISBN 978-0-8078-5801-1).

Chimène I. Keitner, The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. Pp. 233. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7914-6957-6); $21.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7914-6958-3).

Gerald R. Butters Jr. Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. vxi + 348. $44.95 (ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3).

Ernest Freeberg, Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 380. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-674-02792-3).

Corinne Gaudin, Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. 271. $40.00 (ISBN 978-0-87580-370-8).

Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner, Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 304. $27.50 (ISBN 978-0-8078-3155-7).

Tanis Thorne, The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 292. $30 (ISBN 978-0195182989).

Chantal Stebbings, Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 344. $106.00 (ISBN 978-0-521-86907-2).

Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, New York: Random House, 2007. Pp. xxvii + 400. $27.95 (ISBN 978-1-4000-6134-1).

Jamie L. Bronstein, Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. 240. $55.00 (ISBN 978-0-804-70008-5).

Michael D. Ramsey, The Constitution's Text in Foreign Affairs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 492. $65.00 (ISBN 0-674-02490-7).

Steven M. Teles, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 339. $35.00. (ISBN 978-0-691-12208-3).

Michael I. Meyerson, Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World, New York: Basic Books, 2008. Pp. xiv + 309. $26.95 (ISBN 0-465-00264-1).

Kenneth S. Abraham, The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 274. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-02768-8).

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