Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut

by Bruce H. Mann

Book Overview

Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes of disputing yielded to a legal system that treated neighbors and strangers alike. During the colonial period population growth, immigration, economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807817562
• ISBN13: 9780807817568
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"