The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980

by William Edward Nelson

Book Overview

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes located primarily in the upstate region and the impoverished, mainly Jewish and Roman Catholic, immigrant underclass centered in New York City. Beginning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855049
• ISBN13: 9780807855041
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.1"