Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic

by Christopher L. Tomlins

Book Overview

Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic is a fundamental reinterpretation of law and politics in America between 1790 and 1850, the crucial period of the Republic's early growth and its movement toward industrialism. The book is the most detailed study yet available of the intellectual and institutional processes that created the foundation categories framing all the basic legal relationships involving working people at work. But it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521438578
• ISBN13: 9780521438575
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"